Test 11 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…
So the king was just gonna chuck her out, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 chuck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chuck | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chuck | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 chuck | advmod |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 chuck | dep |
| 7 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chuck | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 chuck | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chuck | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 chuck | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 chuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | chuck property | 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, he laughed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | 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 | laugh | past | he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he just listened, gravely, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 listened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 listened | advmod |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gravely | punct |
| 7 | gravely | gravely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 listened | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gravely | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | he | gravely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he was dead serious, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 serious | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 serious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 serious | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 serious | amod |
| 6 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serious | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mate vocative; serious property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he chucked her out, proper rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 chucked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chucked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chucked | nsubj |
| 4 | chucked | chuck | 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 chucked | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 chucked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chucked | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chucked | xcomp |
| 9 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 proper | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck out | past | he | her = she | proper property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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