Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

Wee Jamie, where was the princess tied up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, tie up · To what, where: princess

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jamie	amod
2	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 princess	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 princess	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princess	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jamie	appos
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 princess	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Jamie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess					tree rules
2	tie up	participle		the princess not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

staked doon in its path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 doon	amod
2	doon	doon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 path	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 path	nmod:poss
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stake	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

tied in a dark cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cave	amod
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle				a dark cave			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

staked doon in the middle of its path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 doon	amod
2	doon	doon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doon	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 path	nmod:poss
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stake	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

chained near its den

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 den	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 den	nmod:poss
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain	participle				its den			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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