Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…
Did he chat her up or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: chat up · To what, where: her
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1052 «Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a handsome stranger» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chat | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chat | nsubj |
| 3 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chat | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 chat | compound:prt |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 chat | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat up speech: other | past · do-support | he | her = she | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, he didn't even look at her once, not even for a moment, really
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 look | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 look | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moment | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 moment | advmod |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 moment | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moment | punct |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | he | moment | at her = she; once property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, he didn't even look
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 look | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | he | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, he gave her a smile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 smile | det |
| 7 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | he | a smile | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient smile=Theme |
Option 4
Nope, he didn't even look at her, and he didn't say a single word all night
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 look | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 word | amod |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | he | at her = she | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | he | a single word | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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