Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Did the pixies stop being mad, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pixies · What happens: stop, be

This is test 12 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pixies	det
3	pixies	pixie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	parataxis
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mad	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 mad	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	the pixies						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						mad property	tree rules

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

They ate and slept all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 slept	cc
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past	They not said here				day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They danced and partied all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 partied	cc
4	partied	party	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 partied	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	They						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	party	past	They not said here				night		tree rules

Option 3

They sang and cried all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	They						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	They not said here				night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They got stroppy again later and started fighting over the bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stroppy	stroppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 started	cc
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 started	xcomp
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 bones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	again	late, stroppy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	start	past	They not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fight	gerund	They not said here		over the bones	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over bone=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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