Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…
So Fair pushed her in, yeah? And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fair, whale · What happens: push, swallow, gut · To what, where: her, Fair
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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
Sentence 1: So Fair pushed her in, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pushed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 pushed | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Fair | her = she | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 swallowed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | nsubj |
| 4 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gutted | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 gutted | mark |
| 8 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 9 gutted | advmod |
| 9 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallowed | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | the whale | Fair | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gut | participle | the whale not said here | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, straight into the whale's belly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 belly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 belly | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 belly | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 belly | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 whale | case |
| 8 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, straight into the whale's belly and she lived there for a year
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 belly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 belly | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 belly | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 belly | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 whale | case |
| 8 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the whale's belly | there | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she went straight down into the whale's belly after the big splash
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 belly | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whale | det |
| 9 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belly | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 whale | case |
| 11 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 splash | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 splash | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 splash | amod |
| 15 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | she | the whale's belly | after the big splash | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into belly=Initial_Location |
Option 4
No way, she washed up ashore quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 washed | nsubj |
| 5 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 washed | compound:prt |
| 7 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 8 quick | advmod |
| 8 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 5 washed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash up | past | she | no way | quick property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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