Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…
Was the farmer wanting to be rude to the beggar, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, want · To what, where: farmer
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 farmer | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 farmer | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rude | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rude | cop |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanting | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 beggar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beggar | det |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rude | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 farmer | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 farmer | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 farmer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | gerund | the farmer not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | the farmer not said here | to the beggar; rude property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was being polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 polite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 polite | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 polite | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 polite | cop |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | polite property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he shouted at him to leave, but then felt sorry for him
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shouted | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 felt | advmod |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouted | conj |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | he | at him = he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | feel | past | he not said here | then | for him = he; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, he was being rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 rude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rude | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rude | cop |
| 6 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | rude property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, he was being polite because he feared giving offence on Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 polite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 polite | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 polite | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 polite | cop |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 feared | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feared | nsubj |
| 9 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 polite | advcl |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feared | xcomp |
| 11 | offence | offence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Christmas | case |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | he | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | he not said here | offence | Christmas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent offence=Theme on christmas=Asset |
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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