Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

Proper weird, what's wrong with the second brother's nails?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proper	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wrong	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proper	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 nails	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brother	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nails	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with the second brother's nails; wrong 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

They were very sharp

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	4 sharp	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sharp	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sharp	advmod
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					sharp property	tree rules

Option 2

They were so long they curled round his fingers twice

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	4 long	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 curled	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 curled	nsubj
6	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fingers	nmod:poss
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 curled	obl
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 curled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					long property	tree rules
2	curl	past	they			his fingers		twice property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round finger=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were never cut

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	4 cut	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 cut	advmod
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	past · passive		They					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

They had grown as long as claws and were never trimmed

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	3 grown	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grown	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 claws	case
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grown	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trimmed	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 trimmed	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 trimmed	advmod
11	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	They					as claws; long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not trim	past · passive	They not said here						vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»

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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