Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…

Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squeaky cat · What happens: give · To what, where: sexton

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 give	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
7	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cat	amod
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sexton	det
11	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the squeaky cat	the sexton					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=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

Tom Tildrum is ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ill	nsubj
2	Tildrum	Tildrum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tom					ill property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He's dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

Tim's gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tim					gone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tim Toldrum's dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nmod:poss
2	Toldrum	Toldrum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tim	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Tim	case
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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