Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…
Was the tinker a mardy git or a sound bloke?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tinker
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tinker | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tinker | det |
| 3 | tinker | tinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 git | det |
| 5 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 git | amod |
| 6 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tinker | appos |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 bloke | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bloke | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bloke | compound |
| 10 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 git | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tinker | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the tinker | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Mardy git, total nightmare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 git | amod |
| 2 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nightmare | punct |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nightmare | amod |
| 5 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 git | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Git, they fought all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Git | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Git | day | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Mardy git, they never got on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 git | amod |
| 2 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 git | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get on | past | Mardy git | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sound bloke, they ended up best mates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bloke | compound |
| 2 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bloke | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ended | compound:prt |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 mates | amod |
| 8 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ended | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past | Sound bloke | best mates | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient mate=Result |
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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