Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…
Lol, the cat ate the mouse at the end, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: eat, innit · To what, where: mouse, end
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 ate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ate | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the cat | the mouse | at the end | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | the cat not said here | 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
Yeah, she sprang up from the hearth and killed it dead with one bite and a purr
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sprang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hearth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearth | det |
| 8 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 killed | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bite | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bite | nummod |
| 15 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 purr | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 purr | det |
| 18 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | she | the hearth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | she not said here | hearth | with one bite and a purr; dead property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bite=Instrument |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she sprang up and killed it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sprang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 killed | cc |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | she | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | she not said here | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she jumped on it and bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jumped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bit | cc |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | she | bit | it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
Option 4
Yeah, she sprang up and killed it, then ate it all up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sprang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 killed | cc |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 ate | advmod |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 ate | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | she | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | she not said here | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | she not said here | it | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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