Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Ngl, them babes in the wood got lost real bad, yeah? Where'd they end up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them, babes · What happens: babe, lose, end up · To what, where: wood, Ngl

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Ngl, them babes in the wood got lost real bad, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 babes	punct
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 babes	nsubj
4	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ngl	appos
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 babes	nmod
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bad	amod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lost	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeah	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 lost	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	babe		them = they			the wood			tree rules
2	lose	past · passive		Ngl				bad property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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: Where'd they end up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 end	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	babes = babe						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1

Lost near the sea on a long bare road to the south of London town

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lost	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 road	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 road	amod
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 road	amod
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lost	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 south	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 south	det
12	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 town	compound
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 south	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle				the sea		on a long bare road to the south of London town	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Beside a village church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beside	beside	ADP	_	4 church	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 church	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 church	compound
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Inside a dark old house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Within an unfrequented wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	4 wood	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
3	unfrequented	unfrequented	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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