Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…
Was the Elfin King well gutted when Rowland beat him?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rowland · What happens: gut, beat · To what, where: Elfin King, King
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | aux:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gutted | nsubj |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 gutted | advmod |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 beat | advmod |
| 8 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beat | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | the Elfin King | well property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | Rowland | King | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he ended up on his knees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ended | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past | he | his knees | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he got away fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past | he | away, fine property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, he fell down flat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | he | down, flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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