Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…
So was the giant's house wicked or what, all shaking?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: all · What happens: be, shake
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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 | _ | 7 wicked | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 So | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 giant | case |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wicked | nsubj |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 shaking | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 shaking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaking | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 shaking | nsubj |
| 12 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wicked | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | all | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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
Nah, just a bit of wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, the roof fell in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roof | det |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in | past | the roof | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the whole house shook top to bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 shook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | nsubj |
| 6 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shook | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bottom | mark |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 top | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the whole house | top property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bottom | to-infinitive | the whole house not said here | 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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