Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…
Oi, did Tom's mum get a proper house in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: get · To what, where: proper house, end
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Oi | acl |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Tom | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Oi | a proper house | in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
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, a brand new house with wheat land and a barn full of grain
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 house | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 5 new | advmod |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | compound |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 barn | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 barn | det |
| 12 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | conj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 barn | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grain | case |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a brand new house with wheat land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 house | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 5 new | advmod |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | compound |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, she moved to a cottage in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 moved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cottage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cottage | det |
| 7 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | she | town | to a cottage | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cottage=Trajectory |
Option 4
Yeah, a new cottage by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cottage | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cottage | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cottage | amod |
| 5 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cottage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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