Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…
Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, do, go · To what, where: Tommy, corner
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | Tommy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tommy=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | present | the corner | ever; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Not till he was grown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grown | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 grown | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux:pass |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | past · passive | he | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Not until he was a grown man himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 man | advmod |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 man | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 man | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | he | a grown man | man nmod | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Not till he had grown up and left home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grown | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 grown | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grown | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grown | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow up | past · perfect | he | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | he not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Only once after that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 once | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 once | obl |
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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