Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…
Ok, last one, did the farmer get his money back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: last one, farmer · What happens: do, get back · To what, where: money
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ok | punct |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 money | nmod:poss |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | last one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get back | present | the farmer | farmer's money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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
yeah, he got some back, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | he | some | mate vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nope, he never saw it again, he lost out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 lost | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | he | it | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lose out | past | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, he got some back in the end, but he still lost out loads
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 lost | advmod |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 lost | compound:prt |
| 16 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | he | some | in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lose out | past | he | loads | still | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Eventuality |
Option 4
nope, he never got it back, he lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get back | past | he | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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