Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…
What did the wise woman say when he brought his pig's heart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wise woman, he · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 brought | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pig | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 pig | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the wise woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | he | his pig's heart | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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
"Thanks, lad"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lad | punct |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thanks | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"Thou art a fool today"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fool | det |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | obj |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"I've no brains for thee to-day"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 've | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 've | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 brains | det |
| 5 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 've | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 brains | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brains | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 've | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"I've got no time for thee"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | time | for thee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for thou=Source |
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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