Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must…
so she was just a gatless girl then
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be · To what, where: gatless girl
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 girl | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 girl | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | gatless | gatless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 girl | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a gatless girl | then | 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she couldn't spin for toffee, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spin | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 spin | advmod |
| 6 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 toffee | case |
| 8 | toffee | toffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spin | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toffee | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spin | could | she | for toffee and mate | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for toffee=Beneficiary |
Option 2
yeah, she could not spin at all, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spin | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 spin | advmod |
| 6 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 spin | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spin | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spin | could | she | all | mate vocative | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she was a proper spinner but she was too scared to spin in front of the king, mate, honest
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 spinner | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spinner | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spinner | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spinner | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spinner | amod |
| 7 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 scared | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 scared | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scared | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 scared | advmod |
| 12 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spinner | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spin | mark |
| 14 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scared | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spin | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 front | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mate | punct |
| 21 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 king | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 honest | punct |
| 23 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spinner | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a proper spinner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | she not said here | front of the king and mate | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, she couldn't spin for toffee at all, so the king was going to chop her head off, mate
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spin | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 spin | advmod |
| 6 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 toffee | case |
| 8 | toffee | toffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spin | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 spin | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 going | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spin | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 chop | mark |
| 18 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chop | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 18 chop | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mate | punct |
| 23 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spin | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spin | could | she | all | for toffee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | chop off | to-infinitive | the king not said here | her head | off property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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