Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

What's the deal with the fish-oil, why'd they rub it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, rub on · To what, where: deal, oil

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 oil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oil	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oil	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rub	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 rub	advmod
12	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	14 rub	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rub	nsubj
14	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rub	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 rub	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal				with the fish oil	tree rules
2	rub on	present	they	oil					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to sound smooth and glib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sound	mark
2	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sound	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 glib	cc
5	glib	glib	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smooth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	to-infinitive						smooth property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

so they could talk like the King's advisers in court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 advisers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 advisers	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	advisers	adviser	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 court	case
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	they			court		like the King's advisers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

to make their speeches sound smooth and glib before the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sound	advcl
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 speeches	nmod:poss
4	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 glib	cc
8	glib	glib	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smooth	conj
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		their speeches			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
2	sound	present			before the princess	smooth property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=Location
3	speak		their = they				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

to look fancy and proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 proud	cc
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fancy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						fancy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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