Test 10 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…
Proper sus, the oil bloke was the captain, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oil bloke · What happens: be · To what, where: captain
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1472 «Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the wood after the pebbles and the crumbs» 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 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sus | amod |
| 2 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 captain | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bloke | det |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bloke | compound |
| 6 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captain | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 captain | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captain | det |
| 9 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sus | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sus | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 2 sus | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the oil bloke | the captain | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the oil merchant was the captain of the thieves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 captain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 merchant | compound |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 captain | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 captain | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 captain | det |
| 8 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thieves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thieves | det |
| 11 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 captain | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the oil merchant | the captain | of the thieves | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, he was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, the oil bloke ran the whole gang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bloke | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bloke | compound |
| 5 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gang | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gang | amod |
| 9 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the oil bloke | the whole gang | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gang=Trajectory |
Option 4
No, the oil merchant was a poor shepherd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 shepherd | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 merchant | compound |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shepherd | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shepherd | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shepherd | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shepherd | amod |
| 9 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the oil merchant | a poor shepherd | tree rules |
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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