Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…
So the wren gets hired, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: hire · To what, where: wren
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 hired | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wren | det |
| 3 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hired | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hired | aux:pass |
| 5 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hired | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hired | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hired | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | present · passive | the wren | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, the miller hired him, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hired | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hired | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hired | nsubj |
| 5 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hired | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | the miller | him = he | bruv obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the farmer took him on, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take on | past | the farmer | him = he | mate vocative | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he got sacked
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 | 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 |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | past · passive | he | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, the lord took him on, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lord | det |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take on | past | the lord | him = he | mate vocative | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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