Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the cal…
Did the monkey get the joke when the boy squeezed the cheese? Aye, it did!
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey, boy · What happens: get, squeeze, do · To what, where: joke, cheese
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 260 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the calf dies, the boy finds a princess» 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: Did the monkey get the joke when the boy squeezed the cheese?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 squeezed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 squeezed | nsubj |
| 10 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cheese | det |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 squeezed | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the monkey | the joke | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | past | the boy | the cheese | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=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.
Sentence 2: Aye, it did!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aye | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | monkey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
It winked and climbed doon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 winked | nsubj |
| 2 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 climbed | cc |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 winked | conj |
| 5 | doon | doon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink | past | It | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | climb | past | doon | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location doon=Theme |
Option 2
It didnae get the joke at aw so it sat there scratchin its heid for ages
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | didnae | didnae | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 joke | det |
| 5 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 aw | case |
| 7 | aw | aw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sat | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sat | advmod |
| 12 | scratchin | scratchin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heid | amod |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heid | heid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ages | case |
| 16 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | It | the joke | aw | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent joke=Theme at aw=Asset | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | joke | joke's scratchin heid | there | for ages | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heid=Theme |
Option 3
It looked up and cam doon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cam | cc |
| 5 | cam | cam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | doon | doon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cam | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | It | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cam | present | doon | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It cocked its eye and went doon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cocked | nsubj |
| 2 | cocked | cock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cocked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cocked | conj |
| 7 | doon | doon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cock | past | It | its eye | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | doon | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doon=Theme |
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