Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

Oi, what did she do with the ashes at the start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do · To what, where: start

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 ashes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ashes	det
9	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 start	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 start	det
12	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	she			the start		with the ashes	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 · ← Mova's choice

She had to shovel them in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shovel	mark
4	shovel	shovel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shovel	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shovel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	shovel	to-infinitive	She not said here	them = they				in the yard	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in yard=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She had to sift them in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sift	mark
4	sift	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sift	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	sift	to-infinitive	She not said here	them = they		the kitchen			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Put them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

Option 4

She had to sweep them by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sweep	mark
4	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sweep	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sweep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	sweep	to-infinitive	She not said here	them = they				by the door	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme by door=Trajectory

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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