Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…
Bruv, did the eagles really carry him all the way?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv, eagles · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: Bruv
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1824 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic Fiddle: the Prince wins his parrot, Punchkin dies, and a greedy Brahman and a jealous sister-in-law are introduced» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eagles | det |
| 5 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 carry | advmod |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 way | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | present | the eagles | Bruv | all way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they flew him right over the jungles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 jungles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jungles | det |
| 9 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | they | him = he | the jungles | right property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme over jungle=Location |
Option 2
Nah, only halfway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 halfway | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 halfway | advmod |
| 4 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, they dropped him in a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | they | him = he | a tree | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in tree=Destination |
Option 4
Yeah, they carried him on their backs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 backs | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 backs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | they | him = he | their backs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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