Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Real talk, what did the stepmum chuck into the ashes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do · To what, where: stepmum chuck, ashes

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chuck	det
7	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chuck	compound
8	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 ashes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ashes	det
11	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Real talk	the stepmum chuck		the ashes			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=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 right answer

A dishful of peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dishful	det
2	dishful	dishful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 peas	case
4	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dishful	nmod

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

Option 2

A bowl of crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 crumbs	case
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bowl	nmod

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

Option 3

A bag of flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flour	case
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 4

A dish of pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dish	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 pearls	case
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dish	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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