Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Bruv, what was the little boy meant to do with the oven?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be, mean, do · To what, where: little boy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meant	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 meant	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 oven	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oven	det
13	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the little boy		tree rules
2	mean	past	Bruv			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bruv not said here		with the oven	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

cook the cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here	the cake					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

Option 2

light the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 light	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

watch the Johnny-cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cake	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Johnny	punct
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	the Johnny cake					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

Option 4

clean the oven floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
3	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	compound
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	the oven floor					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient

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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