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Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Mate, did the two ruffians have a proper scrap? Who came out on top?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, two ruffians · What happens: do, have, come out · To what, where: proper scrap, top

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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

Sentence 1: Mate, did the two ruffians have a proper scrap?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ruffians	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ruffians	nummod
6	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 scrap	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scrap	amod
10	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						tree rules
2	have	present	the two ruffians	a proper scrap					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=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.

Sentence 2: Who came out on top?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 top	case
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past				top		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The milder one, dropped the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the milder one	the other					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme

Option 2

Nobody, they split

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 split	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	Nobody						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The milder one, who dropped the other with a knife and ran off into the wood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dropped	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 knife	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knife	det
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dropped	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the milder one	the other				with a knife	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
2	run off	past	the milder one not said here					into the wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

Option 4

The kinder one, took him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	the kinder one	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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