Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Wait, why's the cow all skinny and wisht?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: cow

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cow	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cow	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 skinny	det
8	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wisht	cc
10	wisht	wisht	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skinny	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the cow					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

She's been starved all winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starved	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starved	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 starved	aux:pass
4	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present · passive		She			winter		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She's been eaten and put back together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eaten	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive		She					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	put back	participle						together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She got eaten by the pixies and they stuck her back together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 pixies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pixies	det
6	pixies	pixie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eaten	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	nsubj
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 stuck	advmod
12	together	together	ADV	_	9 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive	the pixies	She					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	stick back	past	pixies = pixie		her = she			together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Option 4

She got her bones mixed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bones	nmod:poss
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 mixed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She	her bones					tree rules
2	mix up	participle	her bones not said here						vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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