Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

bruv, so the country mouse's dinner was just barleycorns and roots, yeah? proper bare, innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: barleycorns

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barleycorns	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dinner	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 dinner	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	compound
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dinner	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mouse	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bruv	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 barleycorns	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 barleycorns	advmod
11	barleycorns	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roots	cc
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 barleycorns	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bare	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	18 bare	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 bare	punct
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bare	amod
18	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 barleycorns	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	INTJ	_	11 barleycorns	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bruv and the country mouse's dinner	barleycorns and roots					tree rules
2	be		bruv and the country mouse's dinner not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was roast beef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 beef	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beef	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beef	cop
5	roast	roast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beef	amod
6	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	roast beef					tree rules

Option 2

nah, it was like a massive feast with loads of sweets and fancy stuff

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 feast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feast	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feast	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 feast	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feast	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feast	amod
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 loads	case
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feast	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 sweets	case
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loads	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stuff	cc
14	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuff	amod
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					like a massive feast and fancy stuff; with loads of sweets	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, barleycorns and roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 barleycorns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 barleycorns	punct
3	barleycorns	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roots	cc
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barleycorns	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

yeah, barleycorns and roots, proper earthy stuff innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 barleycorns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 barleycorns	punct
3	barleycorns	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roots	cc
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barleycorns	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 innit	amod
8	earthy	earthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 innit	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 innit	compound
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barleycorns	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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