Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must…

the names were so random, bruh

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: names · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1943 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must spin five skeins a day or lose her head, and a little black impet offers to help» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 random	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 random	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 random	advmod
5	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 random	punct
7	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 random	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the names					random property	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

nah, Bill and Ned were normal, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 normal	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Ned	cc
5	Ned	Ned	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bill	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 normal	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bill and Ned					mate vocative; normal property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the names were fine, they're just old-fashioned English ones, mate, nothing wild at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ones	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ones	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ones	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	15 ones	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fashioned	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
13	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
14	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ones	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nothing	punct
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 fine	parataxis
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nothing	amod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 wild	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the names					fine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	names = name	fashioned English ones and mate					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Nicodemus and Methusalem is wild, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 wild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Nicodemus	Nicodemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wild	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Methusalem	cc
5	Methusalem	Methusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nicodemus	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wild	cop
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wild	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nicodemus and Methusalem					mate vocative; wild property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, Nicodemus and Methusalem and Bill and Ned are all wild names, mate, proper random

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 Nicodemus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Nicodemus	punct
3	Nicodemus	Nicodemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 names	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Methusalem	cc
5	Methusalem	Methusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nicodemus	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Bill	cc
7	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Methusalem	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Ned	cc
9	Ned	Ned	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Methusalem	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 names	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 names	advmod
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 names	amod
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 names	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 random	punct
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 random	amod
18	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 names	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nicodemus and Methusalem and Bill and Ned	wild names and mate and proper random				all property	tree rules

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