Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Like, who came to help pick the peas, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: come, help, pick, innit · To what, where: peas

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peas	det
9	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pick	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past		tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pick	infinitive	the peas	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
4	innit	infinitive		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 · ✓ the right answer

Doves and birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 birds	cc
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doves	conj

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

Option 2

The kitchen cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Her stepsisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepsisters	nmod:poss
2	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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