Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…

Cor, that black pudding stuck on his nose, didn't it, emmet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cor · What happens: stick, do · To what, where: black pudding, nose

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 250 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding» 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	Cor	Cor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pudding	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pudding	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pudding	amod
5	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cor	appos
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pudding	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cor	punct
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 it	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 emmet	punct
15	emmet	emmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		that black pudding not said here		Cor's nose			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on nose=Destination
2	do	past	Cor	nose					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, it fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	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
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	it						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it fell and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	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
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj

#	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
2	fall	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it stuck and stuck on his nose all through the long winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stuck	cc
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
10	all	all	ADV	_	14 winter	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 winter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 winter	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 winter	amod
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it stuck and stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stuck	cc
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	conj

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

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