Test 2 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Proper, why couldn't Tom kick the little imp?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: not kick · To what, where: little imp

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 kick	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 kick	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kick	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 kick	advmod
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kick	nsubj
7	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 imp	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 imp	amod
10	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kick	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kick	could	Tom	the little imp				properly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent imp=Patient

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

too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

it ran off too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	it					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it wasn't big enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 big	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					big, enough property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

there wasn't enough of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enough	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enough	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of it; enough property	tree rules

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