Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…
Was Dick actually a knight at the end, or just a fibber?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dick | compound |
| 2 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knight | nsubj |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 knight | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fibber | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fibber | cc |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 fibber | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fibber | det |
| 13 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knight | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 knight | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Nah, he was only a fibber who pretended to be a knight for years
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 fibber | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fibber | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fibber | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 fibber | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fibber | det |
| 7 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 pretended | nsubj |
| 9 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fibber | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 knight | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knight | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pretended | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pretended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a fibber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | a fibber | year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a fibber not said here | a knight | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He got knighted by Henry V, for real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knighted | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knighted | aux:pass |
| 3 | knighted | knight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Henry | case |
| 5 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knighted | obl:agent |
| 6 | V | V | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 Henry | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 real | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knighted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knight | past · passive | Henry | He | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he was a fibber who never got a title
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 fibber | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fibber | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fibber | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fibber | det |
| 6 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fibber | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 title | det |
| 11 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a fibber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | past | a fibber | a title | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer title=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was made a sheriff by the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sheriff | det |
| 7 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the king | he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset subject=Beneficiary sheriff=Product |
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