Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…
Did Kenneth and Effie keep butting in on the soldier, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kenneth · What happens: keep, butt · To what, where: soldier
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Kenneth | aux |
| 2 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Effie | cc |
| 4 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kenneth | conj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | butting | butt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 soldier | case |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 soldier | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 butting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yeah | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 keep | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Kenneth and Effie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | butt | gerund | Kenneth and Effie not said here | the soldier | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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 kept on interrupting him all the time, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 interrupting | mark |
| 6 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 interrupting | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interrupting | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | they | mate vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | gerund | they not said here | him = he | time | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, they behaved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 behaved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 behaved | nsubj |
| 4 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | past | they | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, constantly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 constantly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, now and then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 now | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 then | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 now | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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