Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Yo, why did the farmer's wife stash the ten quid up the chimney, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, ten · What happens: do, stash, quid up · To what, where: chimney

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1948 «English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier tricks a foolish farmer's wife out of ten gold pounds, then the farmer out of his horse» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farmer	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stash	nsubj
9	stash	stash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 quid	det
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 quid	nsubj
12	quid	quid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stash	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 quid	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chimney	det
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quid	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chimney	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stash	present	the farmer's wife		tree rules
3	quid up	past	ten	the chimney and bruv	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

cause she thought no thief would search it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thief	det
5	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 search	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 search	aux
7	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 search	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	present	she					think property	tree rules
2	search	would	no thief	it					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cause she reckoned no thief would ever think to look up in there, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thief	det
5	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 think	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 look	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 there	case
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 look	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
15	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	cause	present			tree rules
2	reckon	past	she		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	think speech: other	would	no thief	ever	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	look up	to-infinitive	no thief not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in there=Theme

Option 3

cause she was dead sure no thief would ever bother looking up there at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sure	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sure	amod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thief	det
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bother	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bother	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 bother	advmod
10	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bother	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 bother	compound:prt
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bother	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bother	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cause			sure property	tree rules
2	bother up	would	no thief	all; there	ever		tree rules
3	look up	gerund	no thief not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause she reckoned no thief would ever look up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckoned	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thief	det
5	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 look	advmod
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 look	compound:prt
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look up	would	no thief			there	ever		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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