Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Proper sus, why did the landlord kick the fool out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: landlord · What happens: kick out · To what, where: fool

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kick	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 kick	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kick	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 landlord	det
7	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	nsubj
8	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sus	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fool	det
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 kick	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past · do-support	the landlord	the fool					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fool=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

he drank all the ale and then fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ale	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ale	det
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fell	advmod
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he	all ale					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient
2	fall	past	he not said here				then	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he never paid his tab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 paid	advmod
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tab	nmod:poss
5	tab	tab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	past	he	his tab					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tab=Asset

Option 3

he broke the big mug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mug	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mug	amod
5	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	the big mug					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mug=Patient

Option 4

he kept shouting about his coat o' clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 coat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouting	obl
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 clay	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 clay	punct
9	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund	he not said here					about his coat; of clay	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about coat=Topic

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