Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…

did the herd-boy get a happy ending or nah

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: herd boy · What happens: get · To what, where: happy ending

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 herd	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ending	det
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ending	amod
9	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the herd boy	a happy ending					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ending=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

nope, sad end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 end	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 end	amod
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, he went back to sheep and was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lonely	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lonely	cop
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he					to sheep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result
2	is	past	he not said here					lonely property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he kept herding but got rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	herd	gerund	he not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	get	past	he not said here	rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yup, he married the girl and they lived happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 married	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 married	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	conj
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lived	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	he	the girl				yup vocative	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	live	past	they					happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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