Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

lowkey the wing thing was dumb, what did Gretel do with it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, Gretel · What happens: be, do

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dumb	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dumb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	lowkey					dumb property	tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	Gretel					with thing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ate it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Ate	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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