Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Thumbling: the cook overhears, the co…
Innit the wolf was dumb for eating the whole tummy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: whole tummy
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 119 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Thumbling: the cook overhears, the cow swallows him, and a wolf is cut open» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dumb | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dumb | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | cop |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 eating | mark |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dumb | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tummy | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tummy | amod |
| 10 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eating | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Innit | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Innit not said here | the whole tummy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tummy=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he gobbled it up quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gobbled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gobbled | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gobbled | nsubj |
| 4 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gobbled | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gobbled | compound:prt |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gobbled | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobble up | past | he | it | quick property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, one gulp, no chewing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gulp | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gulp | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 gulp | nummod |
| 4 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chewing | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 chewing | det |
| 7 | chewing | chewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gulp | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, swallowed it whole, no chew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 swallowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
| 3 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallowed | obj |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swallowed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chew | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 chew | det |
| 8 | chew | chew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallowed | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | it | whole property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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