Test 1 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…
Mate, the visitors took the mick out of her 'cos she was dressed in donkey-skin, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: visitors · What happens: take, dress · To what, where: mick, she, donkey skin
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 visitors | det |
| 4 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mick | det |
| 7 | mick | mick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 12 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 15 dressed | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dressed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dressed | aux:pass |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 17 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 donkey | punct |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dressed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dressed | punct |
| 21 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 15 dressed | discourse |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the visitors | the mick | out her = she; Mate vocative | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mick=Theme out she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | she | donkey skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | at her = she; in that skin | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin and said it was rubbish, innit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rubbish | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rubbish | cop |
| 14 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 innit | punct |
| 16 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rubbish | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | at her = she; in that skin | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | they not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | skin | rubbish and innit | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, they took the piss out of her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 piss | det |
| 6 | piss | piss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 out | fixed |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | they | the piss | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument piss=Theme her=Destination |
Option 4
Nah, they just smiled at her kindly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 smiled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 smiled | advmod |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smiled | obl |
| 8 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 smiled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | they | at her = she; kindly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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