Test 2 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…
bruv, so the lover came back to life, then just died? that's gutted
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: come back, die, gut · To what, where: life, that
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lover | det |
| 5 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 died | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 died | advmod |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gutted | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gutted | aux:pass |
| 17 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | bruv | life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | die | past | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | gut | present · passive | that | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he only lasted three days, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lasted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lasted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lasted | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 lasted | advmod |
| 5 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lasted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasted | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | he | day | mate vocative | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he lived quite long, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lived | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fam | punct |
| 8 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | he | fam | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, he died after a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 bit | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | he | after a bit | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
yeah, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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