Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…
Was the Laidly Worm tale the next one in the book?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Worm tale
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tale | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 3 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Worm | compound |
| 4 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | compound |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Worm tale | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it starts right after Whittington ends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 starts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 starts | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 ends | mark |
| 7 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | it | right property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | end | present | Whittington | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Nah, it is a separate book entirely, printed years before the Whittington story was written
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 book | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 book | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 book | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 6 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 book | amod |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 book | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 10 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 years | amod | |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 book | parataxis |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 years | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a separate book | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | a separate book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it starts straight after the cat tale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 starts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 starts | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tale | compound |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | it | after the cat tale | straight property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Yeah, it starts right after Whittington ends, with a worm and a princess
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 starts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 starts | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 ends | mark |
| 7 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worm | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 worm | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 worm | det |
| 12 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 princess | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worm | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | it | right property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | end | present | Whittington | a worm and a princess | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector worm=Eventuality |
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