Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

Yer man got his face scratched, wasn't it the cat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, face · What happens: get, scratch, not be · To what, where: cat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scratched	nsubj
6	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cat	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cat	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cat	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cat	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past	Yer's man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	scratch	past	man's face		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	past	face	the cat	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

Nah, it was an old woman spinning flax by the fire with her cards

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 woman	acl
9	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spinning	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spinning	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 cards	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cards	nmod:poss
15	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fire	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a old woman					tree rules
2	spin	gerund	a old woman not said here	flax				by the fire with woman's cards	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it was the cat with the sharp claws from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 claws	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 claws	det
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 claws	amod
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cat	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 claws	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the cat				with the sharp claws from the kitchen	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, it was the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the old woman					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was an old woman with the carding cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 cards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cards	det
10	carding	carding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cards	compound
11	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 woman	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a old woman				with the carding cards	tree rules

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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