Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sit · To what, where: table

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	aux:pass
3	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hill	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · passive				the table		in the hill and mate	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at table=Location

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

two fine gents with a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 gents	nummod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gents	amod
3	gents	gent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gents	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

some robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a fine gent and his dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gent	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gent	amod
3	gent	gent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dog	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gent	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two posh gents and their crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 gents	nummod
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gents	amod
3	gents	gent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crew	cc
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crew	nmod:poss
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gents	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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