Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…

yo did the cow literally just eat Tom with the thistle n all?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: eat · To what, where: Tom

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 thistle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thistle	det
11	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	n	n	ADV	PronType=Int	13 all	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 thistle	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support		Tom				with the thistle all; literally property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Patient

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, one bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 bite	nummod
4	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

nah, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 nah	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, one mouthful, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mouthful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mouthful	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mouthful	nummod
4	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouthful	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he spat him out, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 spat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spat	nsubj
4	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spat	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spat	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spat out	past	he	him = he					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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