Test 1 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Mate, did the imp tweak Tom's leg or his bum?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: imp tweak

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tweak	det
5	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tweak	compound
6	tweak	tweak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 leg	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tom	case
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bum	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bum	nmod:poss
12	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leg	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the imp tweak					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

tweak his leg under the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tweak	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tweak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	imperative	you not said here	his leg		the table			vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer

Option 2

tweak his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nose	nmod:poss
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tweak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	imperative	you not said here	his nose					vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

tweak his leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tweak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	imperative	you not said here	his leg					vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer

Option 4

tweak his leg while he was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tweak	tweak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tweak	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 sleeping	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleeping	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleeping	aux
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 tweak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	imperative	you not said here	his leg					vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer
2	sleep	past · progressive	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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