Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…
bruv did the hedge just let her through?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, let, throw · To what, where: hedge, bruv
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hedge | det |
| 4 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hedge | appos |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | through | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bruv | the hedge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | bruv | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | bruv not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nah, it shut on her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 shut | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, it let her through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let through | past | it | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
nah, let her by
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 let | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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