Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…
Was Dick's cat's statue seen by anyone later on?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see on · To what, where: statue
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | 4 cat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dick | case |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 statue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 cat | case |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 statue | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 anyone | case |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 seen | obl:agent |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 seen | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 seen | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 statue | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see on | participle | Was Dick's cat's statue not said here | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Yeah, over the archway of Newgate till 1780
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 archway | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 archway | punct |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 archway | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 archway | det |
| 5 | archway | archway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Newgate | case |
| 7 | Newgate | Newgate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 archway | nmod |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 1780 | case |
| 9 | 1780 | 1780 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 archway | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, it was taken away by a sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 taken | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sailor | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sailor | det |
| 9 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · passive | a sailor | it | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it stood over the archway of Newgate prison until 1780, when it was taken down
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 archway | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 archway | det |
| 7 | archway | archway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 9 | Newgate | Newgate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 prison | compound |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 archway | nmod |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 1780 | case |
| 12 | 1780 | 1780 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 taken | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 taken | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | it | the archway of Newgate prison | until 1780 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over archway=Location | |||
| 2 | take down | past · passive | it | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it was lost in the great fire and nobody has seen it since that day
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lost | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | obj |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | it | the great fire | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | nobody | fire | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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