Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

No cap, what did the mice carry as a staff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, mice · What happens: do, carry

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mice	det
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	nsubj
8	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 staff	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 staff	det
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present	the mice					as a staff	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 hollow reed stuffed with fat and sausage skin bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 reed	det
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reed	amod
3	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reed	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fat	case
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuffed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bits	cc
8	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bits	compound
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	participle		a hollow reed not said here				with fat and skin bits	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fat=Theme

Option 2

a hazel cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cane	det
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cane	compound
3	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a long sausage skewer with red thread tied at one end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skewer	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skewer	amod
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skewer	compound
4	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 thread	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thread	amod
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skewer	nmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skewer	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 end	nummod
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a long sausage skewer with red thread not said here			at one end		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sausage skewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 skewer	det
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skewer	compound
3	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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