Test 4 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…
Bruv, what did the robbers chop with the axe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: do, chop
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 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 robbers | det |
| 6 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chop | nsubj |
| 7 | chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 axe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 axe | det |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chop | present | the robbers | with the axe | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with axe=Instrument |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The chain on the buoy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chain | det |
| 2 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 buoy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 buoy | det |
| 5 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The rope on the boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rope | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The big iron chain that held the bell up top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chain | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chain | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chain | compound |
| 4 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 held | nsubj |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chain | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bell | det |
| 8 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 held | compound:prt |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | the big iron chain | the bell | top obl:unmarked | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bell=Theme |
Option 4
The chain holding the buoy to the rock below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chain | det |
| 2 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 chain | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 buoy | det |
| 5 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obl |
| 9 | below | below | ADV | _ | 8 rock | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | the chain not said here | the buoy | to the rock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buoy=Theme |
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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