Test 1 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's jour…
Yo, did the salmon really get eaten by the king's wife, or is that just a legend bit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, eat, be · To what, where: salmon, legend bit
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1036 «Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's journey and rebirth» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 salmon | det |
| 5 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 eaten | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eaten | aux:pass |
| 8 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 salmon | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eaten | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bit | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 bit | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bit | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bit | mark |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 bit | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 20 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bit | compound |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the salmon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | present · passive | the king's wife | the salmon not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a legend bit | tree rules |
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
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she roasted him and ate him, for real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 roasted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roasted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 roasted | nsubj |
| 4 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 roasted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 roasted | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 real | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 real | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roasted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | past | she | him = he | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | she not said here | him = he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3
Yeah, she ate him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | she | him = he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
Nah, she didn't eat him, it's just a myth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 myth | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 myth | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 myth | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 myth | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 myth | det |
| 13 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | past · do-support | she | him = he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a myth | tree rules |
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