Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
Mate, did the chickens actually believe the fox's cave was the short way?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, chickens, cave · What happens: do, believe, be · To what, where: short way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chickens | det |
| 5 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 fox | case |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe | present | the chickens | actually property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the fox's cave | the short way | 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
Aye, they walked straight in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | they | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Naw, they knew better now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 knew | xcomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | they | now | Naw vocative; good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Naw, they saw the fox's tail and ran back out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 fox | case |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Naw | the fox's tail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run back | past | Naw not said here | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Aye, they walked straight in, every single one of them, singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 in | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 singing | punct |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | they | every single one of them | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | they not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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