Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

what did she wipe the soldier with first, before her hanky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: wipe · To what, where: soldier

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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 wipe	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wipe	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wipe	nsubj
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wipe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hanky	punct
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 hanky	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hanky	nmod:poss
12	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wipe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	past · do-support	she	the soldier			before her hanky		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme soldier=Destination

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

a soft cloth she had brought from the kitchen sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloth	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cloth	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 sink	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sink	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sink	compound
10	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect	she	a soft cloth not said here		the kitchen sink			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from sink=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a dry cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloth	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a green leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaf	amod
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the corner of her silk apron, which was already dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corner	det
2	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 apron	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 apron	nmod:poss
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apron	compound
6	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corner	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dirty	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dirty	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dirty	cop
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 dirty	advmod
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apron	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her silk apron					dirty property	tree rules

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