Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is…
Yo, did the prince really rip a whole oak outta the ground like it was nothin'?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: outta · What happens: rip, be · To what, where: whole oak outta
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 684 «Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is blinded and goes to the giant» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rip | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 rip | advmod |
| 7 | rip | rip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 outta | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 outta | amod |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outta | compound |
| 11 | outta | outta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rip | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outta | appos |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 nothin | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nothin | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 nothin | cop |
| 17 | nothin | nothin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ground | nmod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothin | punct |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 rip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rip | past · do-support | a whole oak outta | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outta=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | outta | like nothin | tree rules |
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, he ripped it out easy as pie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ripped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ripped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ripped | nsubj |
| 4 | ripped | rip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ripped | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 ripped | compound:prt |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pie | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 easy | fixed |
| 9 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ripped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rip out | past | he | it | easy pie | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he yanked it up easy like a weed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 yanked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yanked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yanked | nsubj |
| 4 | yanked | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yanked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 yanked | compound:prt |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yanked | xcomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 weed | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 weed | det |
| 10 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 easy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank up | past | he | it | easy property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
Yep, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, totally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 totally | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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