Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we…
So Featherhead got proper vain, yeah? Like proper extra?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Featherhead · What happens: get
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» 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: So Featherhead got proper vain, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 vain | advmod |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 got | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Featherhead | vain property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: Like proper extra?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 extra | case |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 extra | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 extra | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Nah, he was dead nice and kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nice | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nice | amod |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kind | cc |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nice | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he never changed much but he did get dead vain about his hair
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 changed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 changed | advmod |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 changed | advmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 changed | conj |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vain | amod |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 get | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | past | he | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | he | about his hair; vain property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he got dead vain and frivolous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 frivolous | cc |
| 8 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vain | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | dead, vain property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Yeah, he got dead proud and cheeky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cheeky | cc |
| 8 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proud | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | dead, proud property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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