Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…
did she hit it with her bottle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: hit · To what, where: it
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hit | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past · do-support | she | it | with her bottle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bottle=Instrument |
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
yeah, smacked it right on the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 smacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smacked | punct |
| 3 | smacked | smack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smacked | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 smacked | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smacked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smack | past | it | on the head; right property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on head=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, bang, straight in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bang | punct |
| 3 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bang | punct |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 in | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 bang | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, bang, right across the face with the bottle she had
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bang | punct |
| 3 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 face | punct |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 face | advmod |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bang | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bottle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bottle | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | the bottle not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
Option 4
yeah, whacked it with it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 whacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 whacked | punct |
| 3 | whacked | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whacked | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whacked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack | past | it | with it | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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