Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed fo…
Did the kids get the Henny Penny story as well?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: get · To what, where: Penny story
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1629 «Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed for Christmas, hears a story, and is then shut away in a dark loft» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 6 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Penny | compound |
| 7 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 get | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the kids | the Penny story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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
"Yeah, they got Henny Penny too."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yeah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Penny | compound |
| 7 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | they | Henny Penny | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penny=Stimulus |
Option 2
"Nah, they got Humpty Dumpty and then a whole bunch of other stories about kings, bruv."
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dumpty | compound |
| 7 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bunch | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 bunch | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bunch | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bunch | amod |
| 12 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bunch | nmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 kings | case |
| 17 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stories | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bruv | punct |
| 19 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kings | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | they | Humpty Dumpty | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dumpty=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Nah, they only got Humpty Dumpty, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Humpty | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bruv | punct |
| 10 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Humpty | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | they | Humpty | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer humpty=Stimulus |
Option 4
"Yeah, they got Henny Penny as well, the chicken one about the sky falling, bruv."
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Penny | compound |
| 7 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 5 got | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | compound |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 one | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bruv | punct |
| 19 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 falling | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | they | Henny Penny | the chicken one about the sky obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penny=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall in a quote | gerund | the chicken one about the sky not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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