Test 9 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Gutted, what did Tom do all day long?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: gut, do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gutted	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 do	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · do-support	Tom				day	long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

sang with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past						with him = he	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

heard the imp's song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imp	det
3	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 imp	case
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		the imp's song					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
2	sing		the imp						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

heard the church bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	compound
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		the church bell					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus

Option 4

heard the imp's cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imp	det
3	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cry	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 imp	case
5	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		the imp's cry					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	cry		the imp						nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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