Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…
Dead serious, did the wife really give him ALL the gold?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: gold, him
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 serious | amod |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 give | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 serious | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 give | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | ALL | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 gold | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gold | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | all gold | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Theme |
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
nah, only a bit, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
for real, the whole ten pounds, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 real | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pounds | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pounds | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pounds | amod |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pounds | nummod |
| 7 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cap | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cap | det |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
for real, all of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 real | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 all | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
for real, the full ten quid, no lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 real | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quid | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 quid | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quid | amod |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quid | nummod |
| 7 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quid | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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