Test 5 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…
Proper gutted, right? What happened to the servants in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, happen · To what, where: end
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» 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
Sentence 1: Proper gutted, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 gutted | advmod |
| 2 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| 4 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 2 gutted | discourse |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What happened to the servants in the end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | in the end | to the servants | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They had to work all through the freezing night and were not allowed rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 night | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 8 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 night | compound |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 allowed | advmod |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | They not said here | night | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not allow | past · passive | They not said here | rest | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They got worked in the middle of the night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | aux:pass |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · passive | They | the middle of the night | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
Option 3
They got told off by the Widow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 told | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Widow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Widow | det |
| 7 | Widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell off speech: assert | past · passive | the Widow | They | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
Option 4
They had to work all night in the cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cold | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cold | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | They not said here | night | in the cold | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cold=Theme |
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