Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Bare cheeky, how did Tommy talk his way out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tommy · What happens: talk out · To what, where: way

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cheeky	amod
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
6	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cheeky	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obj
10	out	out	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk out	past · do-support	Tommy	Tommy's way				out property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=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 · ← Mova's choice

Promised a pudding from his mother's kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pudding	det
3	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promised	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kitchen	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past		a pudding		his mother's kitchen			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pudding=Theme

Option 2

Offered some jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 jam	det
3	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Offered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	participle		some jam					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent jam=Theme

Option 3

Promised a pudding and begged them to let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pudding	det
3	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 begged	cc
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Promised	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past		a pudding		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pudding=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past			them = they	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive		him = he		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Promised a pudding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pudding	det
3	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past		a pudding					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pudding=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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