Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…

so what was her big punishment?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big punishment

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 punishment	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 punishment	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 punishment	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 punishment	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 punishment	amod
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 punishment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		her big punishment					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

stuck like a statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 statue	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 statue	det
4	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle						like a statue	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

sent to the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 marsh	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marsh	det
4	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle				the marsh			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to marsh=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

forced to stand in the marsh like a stone statue with a loaf under her foot

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stand	mark
3	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 forced	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 marsh	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marsh	det
6	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 statue	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 statue	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 statue	compound
10	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 loaf	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 loaf	det
13	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 foot	nmod:poss
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand	to-infinitive				the marsh		like a stone statue; with a loaf; under her foot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marsh=Location

Option 4

stuck standing still like a statue in the marsh forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 standing	amod
2	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 statue	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 statue	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 statue	det
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nmod
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 marsh	advmod

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

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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