Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…
Oi, Donald got cows out of it, didn't he, proper fat ones?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, Donald · What happens: get, do, not one · To what, where: cows, it
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ones | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ones | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ones | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 15 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 did | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Oi | cows | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past | Oi not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not one | Donald | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, from the brothers, they was small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 brothers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brothers | det |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 small | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 small | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 small | cop |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brothers | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers = brother | small property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, just one cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cow | nummod |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, from the farmer, and they was massive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 farmer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 farmer | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 farmer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 massive | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 massive | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 massive | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 massive | cop |
| 10 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farmer | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | massive property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 nothing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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