Test 3 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Diamonds and Toads, part 3: the fairy at…
What did the mum do when the jewels popped out, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, jewels · What happens: do, pop out, innit
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1078 «Perrault's Tales, Diamonds and Toads, part 3: the fairy at the fountain» 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 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 popped | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jewels | det |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 popped | nsubj |
| 9 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 popped | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | pop out | past | the jewels | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | innit | infinitive | the mum not said here | 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
She fainted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | She | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
She was dead chuffed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dead | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chuff | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
She got really cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 cross | advmod |
| 4 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | She | cross property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She went proper gobsmacked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 gobsmacked | advmod |
| 4 | gobsmacked | gobsmack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | She | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gobsmack | participle | She not said here | properly property | tree rules |
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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