Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…
Did the king reckon Jack would finish the castle?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, Jack · What happens: reckon, finish · To what, where: castle
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | aux |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckon | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the king | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | finish | would | Jack | the castle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector castle=Eventuality |
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
Yeah, he was dead keen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 keen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 keen | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keen | amod |
| 6 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | dead keen | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he was just bare sleepy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 sleepy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sleepy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleepy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 sleepy | advmod |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sleepy | amod |
| 7 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sleepy property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he was well chill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chill | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 chill | advmod |
| 6 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | chill | well property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he wanted them dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | obj |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | them = they | dead property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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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