Test 3 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Was the imp well chuffed when Tom got cursed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chuff, curse · To what, where: imp, Tom

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chuffed	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imp	det
3	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	nsubj:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chuffed	advmod
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cursed	advmod
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cursed	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cursed	aux:pass
9	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chuffed	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		the imp				well property	tree rules
2	curse	past · passive		Tom					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

no, he wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he laughed and screeched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 screeched	cc
4	screeched	screech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	screech	past	he not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he laughed and clapped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clapped	cc
4	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clap	past	he not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he wept and sulked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sulked	cc
4	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	past	he not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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