Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Bruv, what stung the horse and messed everything up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: sting, mess up · To what, where: horse, everything

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stung	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stung	nsubj
4	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stung	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 messed	cc
8	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stung	conj
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 messed	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 messed	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past		the horse				Bruv vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer
2	mess up	past		everything					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a gadfly, annoying little thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gadfly	det
2	gadfly	gadfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gadfly	punct
4	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a horsefly, proper annoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horsefly	det
2	horsefly	horsefly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 annoying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 horsefly	punct
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 annoying	amod
5	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

a hornet, really irritating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hornet	det
2	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 irritating	punct
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 irritating	advmod
5	irritating	irritate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hornet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	irritate	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

a gadfly, a really annoying little thing that buzzed around the stable and messed everything up

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gadfly	det
2	gadfly	gadfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 annoying	advmod
6	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gadfly	appos
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 buzzed	nsubj
10	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 stable	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stable	det
13	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buzzed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 messed	cc
15	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 buzzed	conj
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 messed	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 messed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past	a annoying little thing			the stable			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stable=Location
2	mess up	past	a annoying little thing not said here	everything					tree rules

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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