Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…
Did she just pay him with her own purse? Massive fail, innit!
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, pay · To what, where: him
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned 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: Did she just pay him with her own purse?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 pay | advmod |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 purse | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 purse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 purse | amod |
| 9 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pay | present | she | him = he | with her own purse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
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: Massive fail, innit!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fail | amod |
| 2 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fail | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 fail | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
yes, she paid with her own purse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 paid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 purse | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 purse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 purse | amod |
| 8 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | she | with her own purse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yes, her own purse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 purse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 purse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purse | amod |
| 5 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
no, a gold ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | compound |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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