Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…
Bruv, what's Mr Miacca gonna do with Tommy in the bag?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Mr, bag
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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 do | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mr | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 Mr | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mr | cop |
| 5 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bruv | conj |
| 6 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mr | flat |
| 7 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 do | dep |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Tommy | case |
| 10 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bruv and Mr | Mr | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Bruv and Mr | the bag | with Tommy | 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
Eat him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cook him for supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cook | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 supper | case |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cook | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | imperative | you not said here | him = he | for supper | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Product for supper=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Roast him for the pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Roast | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roast | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | imperative | you not said here | him = he | for the pot | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for pot=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Kill him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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