Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the founta…
how did the good King's son feel when his dad died, honest?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son, dad · What happens: feel, die
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1477 «Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the fountain, one gets pearls and diamonds, the other gets snakes and toads» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 feel | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 honest | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 14 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | the good King's son | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | past | son's dad | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
gutted, he'd have given all his gold back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gold | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | would · perfect · passive | he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gold=Theme |
Option 2
gutted, he'd have given all his gold back and his crown too, honest, bruv, the lot
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gold | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 gold | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crown | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honest | punct |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 given | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bruv | punct |
| 18 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 honest | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lot | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lot | det |
| 21 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | would · perfect · passive | he | the lot obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
gutted, he'd have given his horse away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give away | would · perfect · passive | he | away property | tree rules |
Option 4
gutted, he wished he'd had more time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wished | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | ccomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | he not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | he | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | would | he | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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