Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…
So the wife's a proper fool, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: proper fool
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 fool | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fool | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fool | amod |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | parataxis |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wife | a proper fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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 right answer
she is, she sent money to heaven, well daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 she | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daft | punct |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 daft | advmod |
| 11 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sent | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | past | she | money | heaven | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme to heaven=Destination |
Option 2
she is, she sent her husband's gold off to heaven, well daft, innit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 she | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 heaven | case |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daft | punct |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 daft | advmod |
| 15 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sent | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 17 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 15 daft | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send off | past | she | her husband's gold | heaven | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to heaven=Destination |
Option 3
nah, she's not proper daft, she just believed a story about heaven
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 daft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 daft | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 daft | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 daft | advmod |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daft | amod |
| 7 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 believed | advmod |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 daft | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | she | daft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | past | she | a story | about heaven | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
Option 4
she is, she gave money away, daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daft | punct |
| 9 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | away, give property | tree rules |
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