Test 11 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…
And the grown ups never saw him again?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grown ups · What happens: grow, not see · To what, where: him
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ups | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 saw | advmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not see | past | the grown ups | him = he | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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, once or twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 once | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 once | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 twice | cc |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 once | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 once | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Not a chance, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 chance | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chance | det |
| 3 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chance | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Not a clue, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 clue | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clue | det |
| 3 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clue | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clue | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/235-pg14241-part2/t11/