Test 1 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…
Mate, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, Grumbler · What happens: nick, snooze · To what, where: cock
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» 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 | 6 nick | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nick | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nick | nsubj |
| 6 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nick | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 snoozing | mark |
| 10 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 snoozing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 snoozing | aux |
| 12 | snoozing | snooze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 nick | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · do-support | the wife | the cock | Mate vocative | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | |||
| 2 | snooze | past · progressive | Grumbler | vn snooze-40.4 «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
Yeah, she nicked a fresh one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nicked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nicked | nsubj |
| 4 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | she | a fresh one | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she kept the same cock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cock | amod |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | the same cock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | 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 | do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she swapped it for her own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swapped | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swapped | nsubj |
| 4 | swapped | swap | 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 swapped | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | past | she | it | for her own | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for own=Co-Theme |
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