Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…

wait, what did the violets do to the mouse-king?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, violets · What happens: wait, do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 violets	det
6	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 king	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mouse	punct
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	the violets					to the mouse king	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

they wilted and fell off him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wilted	nsubj
2	wilted	wilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wilted	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wilt	past	they						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall off	past	they not said here	him = he					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they sprang up and covered him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 covered	cc
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 covered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	they						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	past	they not said here		him = he				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination

Option 3

they grew into a tall maypole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 maypole	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maypole	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 maypole	amod
6	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	they					into a tall maypole result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into maypole=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	they					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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