Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…
so the whole thing's a proper lesson, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole thing · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: proper lesson
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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 | _ | 8 lesson | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lesson | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lesson | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lesson | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lesson | amod |
| 8 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 lesson | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 lesson | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the whole thing | a proper lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, don't ignore your own back garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 ignore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ignore | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ignore | advmod |
| 5 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 garden | amod |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 garden | compound |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ignore | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your own back garden | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, it's just a silly story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 story | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a silly story | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, just a funny tale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 tale | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 tale | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, check what's at home first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 check | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 home | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 home | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 check | ccomp |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 check | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | home | tree rules |
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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