Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…
Bro, the runner fetched the water in less than no time, that's mad!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: runner, that · What happens: fetch, be · To what, where: water
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 runner | det |
| 4 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | nsubj |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 12 time | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 less | fixed |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 mad | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mad | cop |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fetched | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | the runner | the water | time | Bro vocative | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | that | mad property | 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, he dozed off at the well, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dozed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dozed | nsubj |
| 4 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 dozed | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dozed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 well | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze off | past | he | at the well and mate | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at well=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he ran really far, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was super fast, proper quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fast | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fast | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quick | amod |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fast | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | fast, super property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, he was super fast, proper quick, and he got back before the sun went down
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fast | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fast | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quick | amod |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fast | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | fast, super property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get back | past | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go down | past | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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