Test 8 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

What was up with Tom's crops, bare bad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 crops	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crops	cop
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 crops	case
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 crops	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Tom	case
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bad	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bad	amod
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crops	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 crops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						with Tom's crops	tree rules
2	be								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

they got eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

they grew well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	they					well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

they rotted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotted	nsubj
2	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	past	they						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

they rotted in the fields that autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotted	nsubj
2	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rotted	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 autumn	det
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fields	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	past	they			the fields that autumn			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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