Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, lit · To what, where: fire

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fire	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fire	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fire	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
10	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fire	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 lit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 with	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	11 with	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the old woman's fire	tree rules
3	lit	participle		the old woman's fire not said here	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 handful of dry straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 straw	case
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 straw	amod
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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