Test 4 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…
The Mayor was gutted, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mayor · What happens: gut, not be · To what, where: Mayor, he
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mayor | det |
| 2 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 he | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gutted | aux:pass |
| 4 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Mayor | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mayor | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 he | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 he | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | the Mayor not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the Mayor | he | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he was mint, dead chuffed about the piper, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 mint | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mint | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mint | cop |
| 5 | mint | mint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mint | conj |
| 8 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mint | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 piper | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 piper | det |
| 11 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chuffed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mate | punct |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piper | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mint property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | chuff | participle | he not said here | about the piper and mate | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Proper gutted, he was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 gutted | advmod |
| 2 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 was | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | 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 | gut | participle | he not said here | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Proper gutted, he was, when the rats left town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 gutted | advmod |
| 2 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 town | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 town | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 town | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 town | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 town | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rats | det |
| 9 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 town | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 town | amod |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | he not said here | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | he | left town | tree rules |
Option 4
Dead chuffed, he was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADV | _ | 2 chuffed | advmod |
| 2 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 was | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chuffed | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | 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 | chuff | participle | he not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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