Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

So the mouse's lot got absolutely battered, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: batter · To what, where: lot

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	8 battered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mouse	case
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 battered	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 battered	aux:pass
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	8 battered	advmod
8	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 battered	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 battered	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 battered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	batter	past · passive		the mouse's lot				absolutely property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, the cat ate the mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the cat	the mouse					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the wren broke her leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wren	det
4	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leg	nmod:poss
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the wren	wren's leg					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the wren broke his wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wren	det
4	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wing	nmod:poss
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the wren	wren's wing					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Patient

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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