Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Be honest, what's the lass's big problem in the mum's eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: big problem, eyes

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 problem	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 problem	obj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 problem	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lass	det
7	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 problem	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lass	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 problem	amod
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honest	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mum	det
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eyes	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mum	case
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 problem	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	is a	present	you not said here	the lass's big problem		the mum's eyes			tree rules

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

she's got no house or land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	she	no house or land					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

Option 2

she's got no money and a dodgy past lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 past	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 past	det
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 past	amod
9	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	she	no money					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus

Option 3

she's not from round here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 round	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 round	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 round	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 round	case
5	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 round	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	she			here		round property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she's got no cow or cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 cabbage	cc
7	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	she	no cow or cabbage					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

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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