Test 1 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…
Mate, did the milestone lady really stay out there for three whole days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: milestone lady · What happens: stay out
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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 | 8 stay | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | milestone | milestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | compound |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stay | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stay | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay out | past · do-support | the milestone lady | there | day | Mate vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Yeah, she stood there for ages, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ages | case |
| 7 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | she | there | for ages | mate vocative | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for age=Attribute |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she waited the full three days, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 waited | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | she | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, she gave up after one day, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bruv | punct |
| 10 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | she | day | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, mate, she only waited a single night then went home to her mum's house
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 waited | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 waited | advmod |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 mum | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | she | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | her mum's house | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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