Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…
Did Peronnik take his cap off for the dragons or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: take off · To what, where: cap
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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 | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cap | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dragons | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragons | det |
| 9 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 dragons | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · do-support | Peronnik | Peronnik's cap | 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
Yes, he took it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | 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 took | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | he | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
No, he threw the cap in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 threw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cap | det |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in | past | he | the cap | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he bowed to them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | he | them = they | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, he just chucked the beads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 chucked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chucked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chucked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 chucked | advmod |
| 5 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beads | det |
| 7 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chucked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | past | he | the beads | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Theme |
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