Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…
Did the tooth really have four prongs, like a pitchfork?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: tooth, four prongs
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 prongs | nummod |
| 7 | prongs | prong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pitchfork | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 pitchfork | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pitchfork | det |
| 11 | pitchfork | pitchfork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prongs | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the tooth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | present | four prongs and a pitchfork | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prong=Patient |
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
Yeah, a fo'-prong feller with a root longer than a fence post, for real
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 feller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feller | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fo | det |
| 4 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fo | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 prong | punct |
| 7 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | compound |
| 8 | feller | feller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 root | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 root | det |
| 11 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | nmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 feller | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 post | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 post | det |
| 15 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 post | compound |
| 16 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longer | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 real | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 real | case |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feller | parataxis |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a fo'-prong feller, for real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 feller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feller | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feller | det |
| 4 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prong | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fo | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fo | punct |
| 7 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | compound |
| 8 | feller | feller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feller | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 real | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feller | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, a five-prong feller, for sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 feller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feller | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feller | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 prong | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 five | punct |
| 6 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feller | compound |
| 7 | feller | feller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feller | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sure | case |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feller | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a fo'-prong feller, just like a pitchfork, for real
The tree, 11 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 feller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feller | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fo | det |
| 4 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fo | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 prong | punct |
| 7 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | compound |
| 8 | feller | feller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pitchfork | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 pitchfork | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 pitchfork | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pitchfork | det |
| 13 | pitchfork | pitchfork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feller | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 real | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 real | case |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feller | parataxis |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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