Test 3 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…
Was the merchant's son totally broke, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, break · To what, where: son
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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 | 5 son | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 6 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 7 broke | advmod |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 broke | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the merchant's son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | past | totally property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Patient |
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
Nah, he had some silver left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 silver | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 silver | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | some silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | some silver not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, just four shillings left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 shillings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 four | advmod |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 shillings | nummod |
| 5 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shillings | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | four shillings not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he had a few coins left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coins | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coins | amod |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 coins | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | a few coins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a few coins not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nope, he was rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 rich | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | rich property | tree rules |
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