Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…
Is a ship that sails on land proper real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ship · What happens: be, sail · To what, where: ship, land
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ship | cop |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sails | nsubj |
| 5 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ship | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sails | obl |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 real | amod |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ship | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a ship | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sail | present | a ship | land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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
Nah, it's just a story thing that never happened, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 thing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 thing | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | compound |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 happened | advmod |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a story thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not happen | past | a story thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it's just a story, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 story | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a story and innit | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, it's only a made up story thing, not real at all, innit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 thing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 thing | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thing | amod |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thing | compound |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 real | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 real | advmod |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 real | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 17 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a made story thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not be | all | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it's just a story thing, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 thing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 thing | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | compound |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a story thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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