Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Mate, what did the old soap-man stick on her to make her look fancy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, make, look · To what, where: old man stick, Mate

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stick	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stick	amod
7	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 soap	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stick	compound
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stick	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stick	acl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 look	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the old man stick	on her = she	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	Mate not said here	Mate		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	Mate not said here		fancy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Shiny leaf-gold and a red bit of his jacket, plus a fancy red comb made of cloth

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gold	amod
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 leaf	punct
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bit	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 jacket	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 jacket	nmod:poss
11	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comb	punct
13	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	17 comb	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 comb	det
15	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comb	amod
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comb	amod
17	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 comb	acl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 cloth	case
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a fancy red comb not said here				of cloth	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Shiny leaf-gold and a red bit of his jacket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gold	amod
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 leaf	punct
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bit	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 jacket	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 jacket	nmod:poss
11	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod

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

Option 3

Gold dust and a red bit of his hat, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dust	compound
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bit	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dust	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hat	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hat	nmod:poss
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dust	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 dust	discourse

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

Option 4

Shiny leaf-gold all over her back and a big red bit of his jacket on her head, innit

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gold	amod
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 leaf	punct
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bit	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 jacket	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 jacket	nmod:poss
16	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jacket	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
21	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gold	conj

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

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