Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Real talk, what did the flax have to go through before linen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do, have, go through · To what, where: flax, linen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flax	det
7	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	through	through	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 linen	case
13	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Real talk	the flax			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Eventuality
2	have	present	Real talk				tree rules
3	go through	to-infinitive	Real talk not said here		linen	through property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before linen=Location

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

soaked, dried, beaten, sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 soaked	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beaten	punct
5	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 soaked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 soaked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	soak	participle	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dry	participle	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	beat	participle	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort	participle	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

steeped, roasted, broken, combed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steeped	steep	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roasted	aux
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roasted	punct
3	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 roasted	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 combed	punct
7	combed	comb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 roasted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	roast	past	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	break	participle	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	comb	participle	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

steeped and combed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steeped	steep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 combed	cc
3	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 steeped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steep	past							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	comb	past							vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

steeped, roasted, broken, combed, and then spun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steeped	steep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roasted	punct
3	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 steeped	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 roasted	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 combed	punct
7	combed	comb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 broken	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spun	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spun	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 spun	advmod
11	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 steeped	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	when	roles by
1	steep	past		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	roast	participle		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	break	participle		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	comb	participle		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	spin	participle	then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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