Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…
So what's the vibe in that castle, then?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: vibe, castle
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 vibe | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 vibe | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vibe | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vibe | det |
| 5 | vibe | vibe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vibe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vibe | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 vibe | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 vibe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the vibe | that castle | then | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Creepy, and the bears could come back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | could | Creepy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Creepy, and the bears left their dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the bears | bears's dinner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme |
Option 3
Quiet, but the bears could come back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | could | the bears | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Dead quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quiet | amod |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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