Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…

Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gurt, bor · To what, where: second sister ansum

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ansum	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ansum	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ansum	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ansum	compound
5	ansum	ansum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 gurt	cc
7	gurt	gurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ansum	conj
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gurt	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bor	punct
10	bor	bor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gurt	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ansum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the second sister ansum		tree rules
2	gurt	infinitive		greedy property	tree rules
3	bor	infinitive			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

Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone and kept all the gold for herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gurt	gurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gurt	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ignored	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignored	nsubj
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gurt	parataxis
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ignored	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ignored	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 gold	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gold	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gurt	imperative	you not said here		greedy property	tree rules
2	ignore	past	she	everyone		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
3	keep	past	she not said here	all gold	for herself = she	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gurt	gurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gurt	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ignored	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignored	nsubj
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gurt	parataxis
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gurt	imperative	you not said here					greedy property	tree rules
2	ignore	past	she	everyone					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme

Option 3

Ansum, she shared with everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ansum	Ansum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shared	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ansum	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	Ansum					with everyone	tree rules

Option 4

Ansum, she helped each one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ansum	Ansum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 helped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ansum	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	Ansum	each one					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

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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