Test 4 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

So the mare ate the apple peel and got a foal, that's wild, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mare, that · What happens: eat, get, be, innit · To what, where: apple peel, foal

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1692 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry youth is robbed of his bread and maimed by his brothers» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peel	det
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peel	compound
7	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 foal	det
11	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wild	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 wild	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wild	cop
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 wild	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the mare	the apple peel		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peel=Patient
2	get	past	the mare not said here	a foal		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foal=Stimulus
3	is	present	that		wild property	tree rules
4	innit	infinitive				tree rules

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, it's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 normal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 normal	cop
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					normal property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it's proper mad, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mad	amod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					mate vocative; mad property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, that's just a story, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	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 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a story and bruv					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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