Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Can you sort it, who does the cooking in that partnership?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sort, do · To what, where: it, cooking, partnership

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sort	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sort	nsubj
3	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sort	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sort	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cooking	det
9	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 partnership	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 partnership	det
12	partnership	partnership	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	can	you	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	do	present		the cooking		that partnership			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality

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

The sausage cooks the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausage	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooks	nsubj
3	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	the sausage	the food					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument food=Patient

Option 2

The sausage does all the cooking and stirs the pot every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausage	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cooking	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cooking	det
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stirs	cc
8	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pot	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the sausage	all cooking					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality
2	stir	present	the sausage not said here	the pot			day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=Experiencer

Option 3

The mouse makes the stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stew	det
5	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the mouse	the stew					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The sausage does the cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sausage	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cooking	det
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the sausage	the cooking					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality

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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