Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…
So people reckoned a ghost ate them? That's mental, bruv
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, ghost, That · What happens: reckon, eat, be · To what, where: people
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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
Sentence 1: So people reckoned a ghost ate them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 reckoned | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ghost | det |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | nsubj |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckoned | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ate | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | people | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | a ghost | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
Sentence 2: That's mental, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mental | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mental | cop |
| 3 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mental | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | mental property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, that was the big rumour in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 rumour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rumour | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rumour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rumour | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rumour | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rumour | amod |
| 7 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rumour | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the big rumour | town | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, that was the wolves, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 think | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wolves | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wolves | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wolves | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolves | det |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yeah | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the wolves | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, that was the big rumour in town, though nobody had actually seen it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 rumour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rumour | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rumour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rumour | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rumour | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rumour | amod |
| 7 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rumour | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rumour | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the big rumour | town | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | nobody | town | actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, that was the big rumour going round the town for months, though no one had seen any ghost at all
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 rumour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rumour | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rumour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rumour | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rumour | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rumour | amod |
| 7 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 rumour | acl |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 months | case |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rumour | acl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 ghost | det |
| 21 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 seen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the big rumour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the big rumour not said here | the town | month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round town=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | no one | any ghost | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus |
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