Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Right, what did he have to kill to get his brains?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: have, kill, get · To what, where: brains

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 have	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kill	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brains	nmod:poss
12	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	he		tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	to-infinitive	he not said here	his brains	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus

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

his goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 goat	nmod:poss
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his big brown pig from the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pig	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pig	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pig	amod
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pig	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pig	nmod:poss
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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