Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

fam, what did the stepmum wrap the boy's head with?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: do, wrap · To what, where: stepmum, head

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrap	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmum	det
6	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 boy	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrap	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	7 wrap	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wrap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fam	the stepmum					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmum=Eventuality
2	wrap	present	fam	the boy's head					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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

a blue hanky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hanky	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hanky	amod
3	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a grey tea towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 towel	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 towel	amod
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 towel	compound
4	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a white handkerchief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 handkerchief	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handkerchief	amod
3	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a dark scarf with a bit of rope on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scarf	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scarf	amod
3	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scarf	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rope	case
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scarf	nmod

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

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