Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…
Mate, what's she gotta say to the fire so the dinner don't burn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, Mate, dinner · What happens: be, say, not burn · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 say | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gotta | cop |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gotta | nsubj |
| 6 | gotta | gotta | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 burn | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dinner | det |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 burn | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 burn | advmod |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | gotta property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Mate | the fire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fire=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not burn | present · do-support | the dinner | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Every peat make t'other burn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 peat | det |
| 2 | peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | t'other | t'other | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | compound |
| 5 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | every peat | t'other burn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burn=Product |
Option 2
Peat, go out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peat | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | infinitive | Peat | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Every log must feed the flame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 log | det |
| 2 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feed | aux |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flame | det |
| 6 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | must | every log | the flame | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Recipient |
Option 4
Each peat helps the other glow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 peat | det |
| 2 | peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 glow | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glow | amod |
| 6 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | each peat | the other glow | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glow=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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