Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…
Was the Sheep just a random farmer's sheep?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Sheep
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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 Sheep | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sheep | det |
| 3 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sheep | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 sheep | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 6 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farmer | amod |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 farmer | case |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 sheep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Sheep | 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 a king with the best kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 king | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a king | with the best kingdom | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he was a prince with a nice house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 prince | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 prince | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prince | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prince | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a prince | with a nice house | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he was a king with the best kingdom and a huge castle full of gold
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 king | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 castle | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a king and a huge castle | with the best kingdom | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, a plain farmer's sheep, but he had a very fine wool coat, innit
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 11 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 4 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farmer | amod |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 farmer | case |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yeah | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coat | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 fine | advmod |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 coat | amod |
| 15 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coat | compound |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | farmer | a fine wool coat and innit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
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