Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goblins · What happens: be · To what, where: mates

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 goblins	det
2	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mates	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trousers	case
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trousers	amod
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goblins	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 goblins	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mates	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mates	nsubj
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 mates	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that goblins in blue trousers	mates					tree rules

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

They sold their dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dwarfs	nmod:poss
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	They	their dwarfs					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme

Option 2

They fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They ate their dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dwarfs	nmod:poss
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They saved their dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dwarfs	nmod:poss
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	They	their dwarfs					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme

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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