Test 6 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Was Simon proper annoyed at getting the mule back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Simon · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: mule

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	cop
2	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 annoyed	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 annoyed	advmod
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 getting	mark
6	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 annoyed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mule	det
8	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 getting	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 annoyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Simon					annoyed, properly property	tree rules
2	get back	gerund	Simon not said here	the mule					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dead annoyed, he gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 annoyed	amod
2	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gave	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	he	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Pretty fed up, he sold it on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 fed	advmod
2	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sold	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 fed	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sold	nsubj
6	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sold	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	6 sold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	participle	he not said here					pretty property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	sell on	past	he	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Nah, chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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