Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…
Did Molly nick the giant's sword off the back of his bed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Molly · What happens: nick · To what, where: sword, back
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nick | aux |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nick | nsubj |
| 3 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nick | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nick | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · do-support | Molly | the giant's sword | the back of Molly's bed | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sword=Theme off back=Source |
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
Nah, she didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she did, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proper | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, she nicked the ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nicked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nicked | nsubj |
| 4 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | she | the ring | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
Option 4
Nah, she took the purse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 purse | det |
| 6 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | she | the purse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
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