Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…
Bruv, why'd she chuck the prince in the chest?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: chuck · To what, where: prince, chest
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 chuck | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 chuck | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chuck | nsubj |
| 6 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chest | det |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | would | Bruv | the prince | the chest | Bruv vocative | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in chest=Destination |
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
Cos it was raining, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 raining | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 raining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raining | aux |
| 4 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 raining | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 raining | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | past · progressive | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cos he was grabbing for the tool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 grabbing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grabbing | aux |
| 4 | grabbing | grab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 tool | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tool | det |
| 7 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past · progressive | he | for the tool | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for tool=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Cos she was bored, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 bored | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bored | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | cop |
| 4 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mate | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bored | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | bored property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Cos the king said so, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | bruv | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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