Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…
Wait, did the farmer really get sacked by Hudden, like, for real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hudden · What happens: wait, do, sack · To what, where: farmer
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 sacked | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sacked | aux:pass |
| 8 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 farmer | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Hudden | case |
| 10 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sacked | obl:agent |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 real | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 real | case |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the farmer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sack | present · passive | Hudden | the farmer not said here | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Nah, Hudden just sacked the farmer proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sacked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sacked | advmod |
| 5 | sacked | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacked | obj |
| 8 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 sacked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | past | Hudden | the farmer | properly property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he got out fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | he | fine, out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he got battered in the bag by mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 battered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 battered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 battered | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 battered | aux:pass |
| 5 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bag | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bag | det |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 battered | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 mistake | case |
| 10 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 battered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | past · passive | mistake | he | the bag | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
Option 4
Yeah, he got sacked for real, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sacked | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sacked | aux:pass |
| 5 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mate | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 real | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | past · passive | he | for real mate | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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