Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…
So Tom ended up loaded and dead famous, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: end up, load
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ended | advmod |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ended | compound:prt |
| 5 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ended | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 famous | cc |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 famous | amod |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loaded | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 ended | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past | Tom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | load | participle | Tom not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, he built a huge stone house for him, his mum, and all his mates
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mum | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mum | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mates | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 all | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 mates | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mates | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | he | a huge stone house and his mum | for him = he; his mates obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for he=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Yeah, he bought a grand farm for his mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 farm | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farm | amod |
| 7 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mum | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | he | a grand farm | for his mum | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent farm=Theme for mum=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Yeah, he built a sick house for him and his mum and gave the rest to the poor
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mum | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 poor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 poor | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | he | a sick house | for him = he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | the rest | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to poor=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he built a sick house for him and his mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mum | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | he | a sick house | for him = he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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