Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Gutted for him, how did the fool end up skint at the inn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fool · What happens: gut, end up

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gutted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 end	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 end	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nsubj
9	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Gutted	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 end	compound:prt
11	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 inn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 inn	det
14	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skint	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for him = he	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	end up	past · do-support	the fool					skint property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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

he had no money to pay

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pay	mark
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 money	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	pay	to-infinitive	he not said here	no money not said here					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he gave all his money to the lass

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lass	det
8	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	his money	the lass				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to lass=Recipient

Option 3

he spent his lucky penny on the squire

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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 penny	nmod:poss
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 penny	amod
5	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 squire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 squire	det
8	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	he	his lucky penny				on the squire goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent penny=Asset on squire=Goal

Option 4

he spent it on a penny

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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 penny	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 penny	det
6	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	he	it				on a penny goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on penny=Goal

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/247-pg14241-part14/t7/