Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

What riddle did she ask him after the sack, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, ask, innit · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Rel	5 ask	obl
2	riddle	riddle	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 sack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sack	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	she	him = he	after the sack	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	innit	infinitive	she not said here			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 · ← Mova's choice

what's round but isn't a ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 round	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 round	cop
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ball	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ball	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ball	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 round	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						round property	tree rules
2	not is a	present		a ball					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

what's yellow and shining but isn't gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 yellow	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 yellow	cop
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shining	cc
5	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 yellow	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gold	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gold	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gold	advmod
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yellow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		yellow property	tree rules
2	shine	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	present	gold		tree rules

Option 3

what's yellow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 yellow	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 yellow	cop
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 yellow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						yellow property	tree rules

Option 4

what's white but isn't milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 white	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 white	cop
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 milk	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 milk	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 milk	advmod
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						white property	tree rules
2	not is a	present		milk					tree rules

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