Test 14 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…

Fr, what's the name of the calf's job, like, what does it do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, job, calf · What happens: be, do, job · To what, where: name, Fr

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 258 «English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 name	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 name	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 name	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 name	det
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 job	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 job	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 calf	case
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	18 do	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fr	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fr	the name	of the calf's job	tree rules
2	do	present · do-support	job	Fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	job		the calf			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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

guards the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present		the gate					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

Option 2

carries her bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bag	nmod:poss
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present		her bag					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

helps her out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 helps	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 helps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	present			her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

feeds her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present			her = she				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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