Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…
Wee Jamie, did the boy end up loaded?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wee Jamie, boy · What happens: do, end up, load
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jamie | amod |
| 2 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jamie | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nsubj |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 end | compound:prt |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 end | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Wee Jamie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | end up | present | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | load | participle | the boy not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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
aye, he got the king's crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 aye | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the king's crown | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | crown | the king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
aye, he got the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 aye | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
aye, he wed the princess and got half the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 4 wed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 aye | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | wed | w | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wed | conj |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 kingdom | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w | past | he | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | he not said here | half kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he got the king's estate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 estate | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the king's estate | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer estate=Stimulus |
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