Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…
Oi, what did the fool reckon he needed to get well clever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fool · What happens: do, reckon, need, get
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 247 «English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a coat o' clay, gets muddy and drunk, and learns he is still a fool» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 needed | xcomp |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 clever | advmod |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the fool | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | need | past | fool | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | fool not said here | clever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
a coat of wool, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coat | det |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wool | case |
| 4 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coat | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a coat o' clay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coat | det |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 clay | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 clay | punct |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a warm cloak, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloak | amod |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloak | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a proper posh coat o' wool and fur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 3 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 wool | case |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wool | punct |
| 7 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fur | cc |
| 9 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wool | 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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