Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…
Ah, yer one drank a draught of oblivion, didn't she? That's mad, sure?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yer one, she, That · What happens: drink, not do, be · To what, where: draught
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Ah, yer one drank a draught of oblivion, didn't she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 drank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 draught | det |
| 7 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 oblivion | case |
| 9 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draught | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drank | conj |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 did | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 drank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | yer one | a draught of oblivion | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: That's mad, sure?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mad | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mad | cop |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mad | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | That not said here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nah, he didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the cowboy forgot cos of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 forgot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgot | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cowboy | det |
| 4 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgot | nsubj |
| 5 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cos | co | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forgot | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cos | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | the cowboy | cos of it | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Aye, the sister drank it instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 5 drank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drank | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drank | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 5 drank | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the sister | it | instead property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, the sister drank it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 drank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drank | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drank | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the sister | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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