Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Did the little chair hold up or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little chair · What happens: hold up

This is test 8 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chair	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chair	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chair	amod
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 hold	compound:prt
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hold	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	the little chair						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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, fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	fine	fine	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yeah, it held firm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 held	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	it					firm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it broke into pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	it					into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result

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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