Test 1 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Mate, was Simon dead gullible or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Simon · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gullible	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gullible	cop
4	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gullible	nsubj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gullible	amod
6	gullible	gullible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gullible	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gullible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Simon					Mate vocative; gullible property	tree rules

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

Totally clever, innit, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mate	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 clever	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clever	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah mate, Simon was actually quite sharp, he sold them that goat and ran rings round the lot of them

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sharp	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
4	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sharp	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sharp	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 sharp	advmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 sharp	advmod
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sold	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sold	nsubj
11	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sharp	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sold	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 goat	mark
14	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sold	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sold	conj
17	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ran	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 lot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lot	det
20	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Simon			actually, sharp property	tree rules
2	sell	past	Simon	them = they			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	run	past	Simon not said here	rings	the lot of rings		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ring=Theme round lot=Trajectory

Option 3

Honestly bruv, he got a bit soft at first but then he did them proper, didn't he, sorted the lot

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 bruv	advmod
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soft	obl:unmarked
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 soft	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 did	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	obj
16	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 did	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 he	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sorted	punct
22	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lot	det
24	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sorted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	bruv		soft property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past	he	them = they	then	properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	do	past	he				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sort	past	he not said here	the lot			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proper gullible, innit, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gullible	advmod
2	gullible	gullible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 gullible	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gullible	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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