Test 14 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…
Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, hear
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smart | cop |
| 2 | Mally | Mally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smart | compound |
| 3 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 dumb | cc |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smart | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 3 smart | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 smart | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 smart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | smart property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | hear | past | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
dumb, she kept ruining stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ruining | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruining | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ruin | gerund | she not said here | stuff | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |
Option 2
clever, but very unlucky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 clever | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 unlucky | cc |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unlucky | advmod |
| 5 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 clever | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
smart, really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 smart | punct |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 smart | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
smart, she tried her best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 tried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | she | her best | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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