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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

detobjadvmodadvclnummodobjpunctcasedetconjpunctrootDidVERBtheDETtoothNOUNreallyADVhaveVERBfourNUMprongsNOUN,PUNCTlikeADPaDETpitchforkNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DiddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 toothdet
3toothtoothNOUNNumber=Sing1 Didobj
4reallyreallyADV_5 haveadvmod
5havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Didadvcl
6fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card7 prongsnummod
7prongsprongNOUNNumber=Plur5 haveobj
8,,PUNCT_11 pitchforkpunct
9likelikeADP_11 pitchforkcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 pitchforkdet
11pitchforkpitchforkNOUNNumber=Sing7 prongsconj
12??PUNCT_1 Didpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe toothvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality
2havepresentfour prongs and a pitchforkvn 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
discoursepunctdetnsubjpunctpunctcompoundcasedetnmodadvmodcasedetcompoundoblpunctcaseparataxisrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTaDETfoNOUN'PUNCT-PUNCTprongNOUNfellerNOUNwithADPaDETrootNOUNlongerADVthanADPaDETfenceNOUNpostNOUN,PUNCTforADPrealADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_8 fellerdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_8 fellerpunct
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 fodet
4fofoNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellernsubj
5''PUNCT_4 fopunct
6--PUNCT_7 prongpunct
7prongprongNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellercompound
8fellerfellerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9withwithADP_11 rootcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 rootdet
11rootrootNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellernmod
12longerlongADVDegree=Cmp8 felleradvmod
13thanthanADP_16 postcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 postdet
15fencefenceNOUNNumber=Sing16 postcompound
16postpostNOUNNumber=Sing12 longerobl
17,,PUNCT_19 realpunct
18forforADP_19 realcase
19realrealADJDegree=Pos8 fellerparataxis

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a fo'-prong feller, for real

discoursepunctdetcompoundpunctpunctcompoundpunctcasenmodrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTaDETfoNOUN'PUNCT-PUNCTprongNOUNfellerNOUN,PUNCTforADPrealADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_8 fellerdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_8 fellerpunct
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 fellerdet
4fofoNOUNNumber=Sing7 prongcompound
5''PUNCT_4 fopunct
6--PUNCT_4 fopunct
7prongprongNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellercompound
8fellerfellerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9,,PUNCT_8 fellerpunct
10forforADP_11 realcase
11realrealADJDegree=Pos8 fellernmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, a five-prong feller, for sure

discoursepunctdetnummodpunctcompoundpunctcasenmodrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTaDETfiveNUM-PUNCTprongNOUNfellerNOUN,PUNCTforADPsureADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_7 fellerdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_7 fellerpunct
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 fellerdet
4fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 prongnummod
5--PUNCT_4 fivepunct
6prongprongNOUNNumber=Sing7 fellercompound
7fellerfellerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
8,,PUNCT_7 fellerpunct
9forforADP_10 surecase
10suresureADJDegree=Pos7 fellernmod

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
discoursepunctdetnsubjpunctpunctcompoundpunctadvmodcasedetconjpunctcaseparataxisrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTaDETfoNOUN'PUNCT-PUNCTprongNOUNfellerNOUN,PUNCTjustADVlikeADPaDETpitchforkNOUN,PUNCTforADPrealADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_8 fellerdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_8 fellerpunct
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 fodet
4fofoNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellernsubj
5''PUNCT_4 fopunct
6--PUNCT_7 prongpunct
7prongprongNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellercompound
8fellerfellerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9,,PUNCT_13 pitchforkpunct
10justjustADV_13 pitchforkadvmod
11likelikeADP_13 pitchforkcase
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 pitchforkdet
13pitchforkpitchforkNOUNNumber=Sing8 fellerconj
14,,PUNCT_16 realpunct
15forforADP_16 realcase
16realrealADJDegree=Pos8 fellerparataxis

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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