Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…
Be honest, did the herdboy stick around after the big ball?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: herdboy · What happens: be, stick around
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stick | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stick | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 herdboy | det |
| 6 | herdboy | herdboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stick | nsubj |
| 7 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 stick | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stick | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stick around | past · do-support | the herdboy | after the big ball | around property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, nobody ever saw him again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | nobody | him = he | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he went back to the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | he | to the hills result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result |
Option 4
Yeah, he got a job at the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 job | det |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a job | the palace | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent job=Theme at palace=Asset |
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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