Test 12 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…
Bro, the weaver had actually got away with the flies thing, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weaver · What happens: get away
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weaver | det |
| 4 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 thing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thing | compound |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past · perfect | the weaver | with the flies thing; Bro vocative; actually, away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, he got away clean, proper lucky, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mate | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lucky | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lucky | amod |
| 9 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clean | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lucky | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past | he | clean mate vocative; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, he got done for murder by accident and then ran off to a village, proper trouble, innit
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 murder | case |
| 7 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 ran | advmod |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trouble | punct |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trouble | amod |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 village | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 innit | punct |
| 21 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 village | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | accident | he | for murder | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | run off | past | accident not said here | then | to a village and proper trouble and innit result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he got done for murder sort of, proper trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 7 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sort | compound |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trouble | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trouble | amod |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sort | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | he | for murder sort of proper trouble | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sort | proper trouble | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Nah, he got nicked for the old lady, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nicked | aux:pass |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mad | punct |
| 11 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · passive | he | for the old lady | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for lady=Beneficiary |
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