Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…
Tom's beer run, that's dead long innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, Tom · What happens: be, run · To what, where: dead long innit
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 run | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tom | case |
| 3 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | compound |
| 4 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 innit | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 innit | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 innit | amod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 innit | amod |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | dead long innit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | Tom | nom run «act transitive»: poss=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, twelve miles each way, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 miles | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, twenty miles there, fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 7 | fine | fine | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, twenty miles there, knackering
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knackering | punct |
| 7 | knackering | knacker | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 there | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knacker | gerund | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, like forty miles round trip with a cart and beer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 trip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trip | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 trip | case |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 miles | nummod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 round | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trip | amod |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cart | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cart | det |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trip | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beer | cc |
| 12 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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