Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

lol, what did the old snails reckon the manor-house was for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old snails · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snails	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snails	amod
7	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
10	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 manor	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 for	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 for	cop
14	for	for	ADP	_	8 reckon	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the old snails						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

for cooking fine white snails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 cooking	case
2	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snails	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snails	amod
5	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cooking	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

being boiled and laid on silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boiled	aux:pass
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laid	cc
4	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 silver	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund · passive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
2	lay	participle				silver			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on silver=Destination

Option 3

being boiled, stewed and served on gold dishes at feasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boiled	aux:pass
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stewed	punct
4	stewed	stew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 served	cc
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 dishes	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dishes	compound
9	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 served	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 feasts	case
11	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dishes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	where	roles by
1	boil	gerund · passive		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
2	stew	participle		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	serve	participle	gold dishes at feasts	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4

being boiled and laid on silver with herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boiled	aux:pass
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laid	cc
4	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 silver	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 herbs	case
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund · passive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
2	lay	participle				silver		with herbs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on silver=Destination

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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