Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Did Scrapefoot find a nice bed, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: find · To what, where: nice bed

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
2	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bed	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bed	amod
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	3 find	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Scrapefoot	a nice bed					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he curled up in the little bed and slept all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 curled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 curled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 curled	nsubj
4	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curled	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curled	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	past	he			the little bed			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	he not said here				night	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Not yet, he tried the middling one but it was too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 tried	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	compound
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hard	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he	the middling one			yet		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	is	past	he not said here					hard property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he slept in the little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he					in the little one	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not yet, he tried the middling one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 tried	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	compound
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he	the middling one			yet		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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