Test 11 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…
Fam, what did the lads swear they would not do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fam, lads · What happens: do, swear, not do
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lads | det |
| 6 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swear | nsubj |
| 7 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swear | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swear | present | the lads | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | would | lads = lad | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
stay on the same garth with Tom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 garth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garth | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garth | amod |
| 5 | garth | garth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stay | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Tom | case |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 garth | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | the same garth with Tom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on garth=Location |
Option 2
work with Tom again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 Tom | case |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 work | nmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 work | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
speak to the master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 master | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 speak | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | to the master | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to master=Co-Agent |
Option 4
leave the farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farm | det |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the farm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=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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