Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Real talk, who's the bigger muppet, the farmer or his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: bigger muppet

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 muppet	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 muppet	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 muppet	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 muppet	det
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 muppet	amod
8	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 farmer	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wife	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk and the farmer or farmer's wife	the bigger muppet					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 · ← Mova's choice

the wife, she's the bigger one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wife	the bigger one					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

tough one, they're both total donkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	amod
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 donkeys	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 donkeys	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 donkeys	cop
6	both	both	ADV	_	8 donkeys	advmod
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 donkeys	amod
8	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	total donkeys				both property	tree rules

Option 3

the farmer, mostly, but the wife's total donkey move was daft too

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 daft	punct
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	14 daft	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 daft	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 daft	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 move	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wife	case
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 move	amod
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 move	compound
12	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 daft	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 daft	cop
14	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 farmer	acl
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 daft	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wife's total donkey move	the farmer not said here				daft, mostly property	tree rules
2	move		the wife						nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

the farmer, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 farmer	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 farmer	advmod

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

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