Test 13 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…
Is this tale about nicking stuff, or about getting your own back?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: be, nick, get · To what, where: tale, stuff, own back
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tale | cop |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tale | det |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 nicking | mark |
| 5 | nicking | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tale | acl |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 getting | cc |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 getting | mark |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 back | amod |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this tale | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nick | gerund | this tale not said here | stuff | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | this tale | your own back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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
Getting stuff for free, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 bruv | case |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bruv | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | stuff | for free bruv | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme for bruv=Source |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Getting your own back, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bruv | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 back | amod |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Getting | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | your own back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nicking stuff, innit, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicking | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mate | compound |
| 2 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nicking | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 1 Nicking | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nicking | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | gerund | stuff | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |
Option 4
Stealing, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stealing | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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