Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…
Right, so why did the dogs chase them home, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dogs, you · What happens: chase, innit · To what, where: them
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1992 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the wrong man and chase clouds in the lake» 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 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 12 innit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 innit | advmod |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 chase | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chase | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dogs | det |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chase | nsubj |
| 8 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 innit | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chase | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 chase | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chase | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past · do-support | the dogs | them = they | home property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | innit | imperative | you not said here | 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
Cos they stole them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | co | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Cos | them = they | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Cos the brothers was carrying the dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 carrying | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carrying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carrying | aux |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dogs | det |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carrying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | the brothers | the dogs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
Option 3
Dunno, they just did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 5 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dunno | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They was running off with the hides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 running | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 running | aux |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 running | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hides | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hides | det |
| 7 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past · progressive | They | with the hides | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with hide=Material |
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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