Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Dude, what was actually in Little Claus's sack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: sack

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sack	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 sack	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sack	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 sack	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 sack	case
7	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Claus	amod
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sack	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Claus	case
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dude and Little Claus's sack			Little Claus's sack		actually property	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 · ← Mova's choice

A dried horse skin, cut from a dead mare last winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skin	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skin	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skin	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 mare	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mare	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mare	amod
10	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 winter	amod
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mare	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cut	participle		a dried horse skin not said here				from a dead mare and last winter	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mare=Location

Option 2

A horse skin dried in the sun and wrapped up with string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 skin	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	compound
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 skin	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wrapped	cc
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dried	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 wrapped	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 string	case
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle		a horse skin not said here		the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wrap up	participle						with string	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with string=Theme

Option 3

A cured cow hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hide	det
2	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hide	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	compound
4	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	participle							vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dried horse skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skin	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skin	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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