Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

What did he do to his face so nobody clocked him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, nobody · What happens: do, clock · To what, where: him

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 clocked	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 clocked	nsubj
10	clocked	clock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 clocked	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	he					to his face	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	clock	past	nobody	him = he					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value

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

stained it brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stained	stain	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 stained	obj
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 stained	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	past		it				brown property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 2

washed it clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washed	wash	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 washed	obj
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 washed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past		it				clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

wore a thick hood and hid under a long dark cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hood	det
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hood	amod
4	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wore	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hid	cc
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wore	conj
7	under	under	ADP	_	11 cloak	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloak	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloak	amod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloak	amod
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past		a thick hood					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hood=Theme
2	hide	past				a long dark cloak			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cloak=Location

Option 4

covered it with walnut juice and soot from the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	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 covered	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 juice	case
4	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 juice	compound
5	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 soot	cc
7	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 juice	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past		it		the fire		with walnut juice and soot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with juice=Theme

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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