Test 1 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…
oi mate, did you see the massive coach with eight white horses, proper bare?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: massive coach
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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 | oi | oi | X | _ | 2 mate | compound |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mate | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coach | det |
| 8 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coach | amod |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 horses | nummod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 coach | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bare | punct |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bare | amod |
| 16 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | you | the massive coach | with eight white horses; oi mate vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus |
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
Nah, it was just a normal cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 cart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cart | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cart | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 cart | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cart | det |
| 7 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cart | amod |
| 8 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a normal cart | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it was dead fancy and proper bare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fancy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fancy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fancy | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fancy | amod |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 proper | cc |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fancy | conj |
| 9 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fancy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | bare, fancy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, it was rubbish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rubbish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rubbish | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rubbish | cop |
| 5 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | rubbish | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, it was well posh, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 posh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 posh | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 posh | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 posh | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 posh | advmod |
| 6 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 6 posh | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | posh, well property | tree rules |
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