Test 2 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

No cap, what did the fairy wife hand him for the road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy wife · What happens: hand · To what, where: cap

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hand	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 hand	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hand	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nsubj
9	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hand	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past · do-support	the fairy wife	no cap				for the road	tree rules

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

A whole basket of fairy cakes and a silver bottle of dew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 basket	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 basket	amod
3	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cakes	case
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cakes	compound
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 basket	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bottle	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	compound
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cakes	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 dew	case
12	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	nmod

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

Option 2

A pair of enchanted boots that can walk over the sea and mountains together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boots	case
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boots	amod
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 walk	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pair	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mountains	cc
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sea	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	walk	can	a pair of enchanted boots			the sea and mountains		together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory

Option 3

A tiny wooden whistle thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A long curl of her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 curl	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curl	amod
3	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curl	nmod

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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