Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Ngl, the soldier's pretty clever, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 clever	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clever	nsubj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soldier	case
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 clever	advmod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clever	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	7 clever	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 clever	punct

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

The options

Option 1

yeah, he played both of them and got a horse out of it, proper smart

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 played	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 both	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 it	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 smart	amod
17	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 played	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	both					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme
2	get	past	he not said here	a horse				out horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he was lucky, but yeah he played them both properly well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lucky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lucky	cop
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 played	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 played	discourse
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lucky	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	obj
12	both	both	ADV	_	13 properly	advmod
13	properly	properly	ADV	_	10 played	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 properly	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lucky property	tree rules
2	play	past	he	them = they				properly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he tricked them both, proper clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tricked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he played both of them, proper smart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 played	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 both	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smart	amod
10	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 played	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	both					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme

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