Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Dude, what did Jack's mum call him when he messed up the cheese?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, mum · What happens: do, call, mess up · To what, where: Dude, cheese · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jack	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 messed	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 messed	nsubj
12	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 messed	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cheese	det
15	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 messed	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	Jack's mum		Dude	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	mess up	past	Dude	the cheese		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 · ← Mova's choice

a lazy good-for-nothing little lout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lout	det
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lout	amod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lout	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lout	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 lout	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 for	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 lout	compound
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lout	amod
9	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a stupid lout who never learns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lout	det
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lout	amod
3	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 learns	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 learns	advmod
6	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lout	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	present	a stupid lout						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a stupid lout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lout	det
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lout	amod
3	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a silly goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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