Test 6 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…
Did the innkeeper and his wife get lashed by it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, lash · To what, where: innkeeper, wife
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 innkeeper | det |
| 3 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lashed | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lashed | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lashed | aux:pass |
| 8 | lashed | lash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Did | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lashed | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the innkeeper | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lash | present · passive | his wife | by innkeeper | vn tape-22.4 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they screamed and ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | they | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they hopped like mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hopped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 mad | case |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | they | like mad | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, not them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 them | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 them | advmod |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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