Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…
Oi, so the Queen scoffed the lungs and liver, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: scoff · To what, where: lungs
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scoffed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 scoffed | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 scoffed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 scoffed | nsubj |
| 6 | scoffed | scoff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lungs | det |
| 8 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scoffed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 liver | cc |
| 10 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lungs | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yeah | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 scoffed | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 scoffed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoff | past | Oi | the lungs and liver | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Theme |
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
Yeah, she scoffed the lot, the lungs and the liver, proper daft she was
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 scoffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scoffed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scoffed | nsubj |
| 4 | scoffed | scoff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scoffed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lungs | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lungs | det |
| 9 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lot | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 liver | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 liver | det |
| 12 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lungs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daft | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daft | amod |
| 15 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scoffed | parataxis |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 daft | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 daft | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoff | past | she | the lot | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | daft property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, mate, she didn't eat them, she fed them to the dogs in the yard
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 eat | advmod |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fed | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fed | nsubj |
| 12 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 dogs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dogs | det |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fed | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 yard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 yard | det |
| 19 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | past · do-support | she | them = they | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feed | past | she | them = they | the dogs | in the yard | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to dog=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, proper daft, she did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 daft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daft | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daft | amod |
| 4 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daft | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, she gave them back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | she | them = they | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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