Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

What did the mum do to make it go green?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: do, make, go · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 975 «Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false and passed from hand to hand» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the mum			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	the mum not said here	it		tree rules
4	go	infinitive			green property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 it in water

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 soaked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	participle		it				in water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in water=Theme

Option 2

dipped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past		it					vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stuck it in vinegar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stuck	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vinegar	case
4	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past		it		vinegar			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in vinegar=Destination

Option 4

used paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 paint	amod
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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