Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…
Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine? Proper mental!
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, thirsty mate · What happens: wait, drink · To what, where: forty barrels
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drank | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mate | det |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mate | amod |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drank | nsubj |
| 6 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 barrels | nummod |
| 8 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drank | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barrels | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | the thirsty mate | forty barrels of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=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: Proper mental!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mental | amod |
| 2 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 mental | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, forty jugs, every bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jugs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jugs | punct |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 jugs | nummod |
| 4 | jugs | jug | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jugs | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, forty casks, every drop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 casks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 casks | punct |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 casks | nummod |
| 4 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 drop | det |
| 7 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, forty casks, every drop, and he asked for more before the feast ended
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 casks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 casks | nummod |
| 4 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 drop | det |
| 7 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 more | case |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 asked | obl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 ended | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ended | nsubj |
| 17 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | forty casks and every drop | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | end | past | the feast | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, forty casks, every drop, then he fell asleep in the cellar for a whole day
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 casks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 casks | nummod |
| 4 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 drop | det |
| 7 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 casks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fell | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cellar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cellar | det |
| 15 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | forty casks and every drop | the cellar | then; day | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location |
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