Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…
Did the slaves help him out at all?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slaves · What happens: help out · To what, where: him, all
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slaves | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slaves | det |
| 3 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 help | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 help | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help out | present | the slaves | him = he | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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
Yeah, they gave him a snack, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snack | det |
| 7 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snack | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | they | a snack and bro | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient snack=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they spoke some weird lingo, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 lingo | det |
| 6 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lingo | amod |
| 7 | lingo | lingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lingo | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | they | some weird lingo and bro | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, they spoke proper English, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 English | amod |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bro | punct |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 English | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | they | proper English and bro | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they just stood there, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bro | punct |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | they | there | bro vocative | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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