Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

Did his missus give him a proper telling-off, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: missus · What happens: give · To what, where: proper telling off

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 missus	nmod:poss
3	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 off	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 off	amod
8	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 off	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 off	punct
10	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 give	iobj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	his missus	a proper telling off					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

a right good clip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clip	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clip	amod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clip	amod
4	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a slap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slap	det
2	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a telling-off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 off	det
2	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 off	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 telling	punct
4	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sound cudgelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cudgelling	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cudgelling	compound
3	cudgelling	cudgelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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