Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…
Wait, so Jack just made up that the old man was in Paradise?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jack, old man · What happens: wait, make up, be · To what, where: Paradise
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Paradise | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Paradise | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Paradise | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Paradise | case |
| 14 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make up | past | Jack | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the old man | Paradise | 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, he was totally making it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 making | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · progressive | he | it | totally property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
Option 2
yeah, he was just lying to them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 lying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lying | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lying | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lying | advmod |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | he | them = they | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he was honest, but then he totally made the whole thing up after
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 honest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 honest | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | cop |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 made | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 honest | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | he | the whole thing | then | totally property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product |
Option 4
yeah, he was totally making it up to get the money and the horse
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 making | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 making | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horse | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 money | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · progressive | he | it | totally property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | he not said here | the money and the horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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