Test 11 · ★ · pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals t…
Was that wild horse just being a jerk when he bit Sunlight?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: jerk, Sunlight
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» 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 | Was | was | ADP | _ | 4 horse | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 horse | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jerk | obl |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 jerk | advmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 jerk | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jerk | det |
| 8 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 bit | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bit | nsubj |
| 11 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jerk | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bit | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 jerk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a jerk | was that wild horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | horse | Sunlight | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, he was mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | cop |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mean property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, he was just grumpy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 grumpy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grumpy | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grumpy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grumpy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 grumpy | advmod |
| 6 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | grumpy property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he was hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 hungry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he hated strangers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hated | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | he | strangers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
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