Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…
Did the prince really fool everyone with the hammering?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: fool · To what, where: everyone
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fool | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 fool | advmod |
| 5 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 fool | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hammering | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hammering | det |
| 9 | hammering | hammering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fool | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | past · do-support | the prince | everyone | with the hammering | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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 hammered loudly and pitched scraps out of the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hammered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hammered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hammered | nsubj |
| 4 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 hammered | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pitched | cc |
| 7 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hammered | conj |
| 8 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pitched | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pitched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer | past | he | loudly property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pitch | past | he not said here | scraps | the window | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme out window=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, he banged away and tossed scraps out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 banged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 banged | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 banged | nsubj |
| 4 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scraps | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 banged | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tossed | cc |
| 7 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 banged | conj |
| 8 | scraps | scrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 scraps | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang away | past | he | away property | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | toss | past | he not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scrap out | present | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, just noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 noise | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 noise | advmod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he hammered all night and chucked bits out the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hammered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hammered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hammered | nsubj |
| 4 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hammered | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chucked | cc |
| 8 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hammered | conj |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chucked | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 chucked | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chucked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer | past | he | night | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chuck out | past | he not said here | bits | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bit=Destination window=Theme |
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