Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…
Wee Jamie, what did the posh gents bring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wee Jamie · What happens: bring
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 bring | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gents | det |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gents | amod |
| 8 | gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | Wee Jamie | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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
wagonloads o' tongues fae every village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wagonloads | wagonload | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 4 tongues | case |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tongues | punct |
| 4 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 wagonloads | nmod |
| 5 | fae | fae | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wagonloads | conj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fae | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
tongues cut fae a dozen lizards and snakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fae | fae | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 cut | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dozen | det |
| 5 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lizards | nummod |
| 6 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cut | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 snakes | cc |
| 8 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lizards | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | tongues | fae | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset fae=Beneficiary lizard=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
tongues that werenae dragons'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dragons | compound |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 werenae | nsubj |
| 3 | werenae | werenae | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 tongues | conj |
| 4 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 dragons | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
pickled tongues fae the market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pickled | pickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tongues | amod |
| 2 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fae | nsubj |
| 3 | fae | fae | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 market | det |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fae | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pickle | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fae | past | pickled tongues | the market | tree rules |
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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