Test 2 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…
Mate, did Tritill and Litill just sit about doing nothing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Tritill · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: nothing
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Tritill | Tritill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Litill | cc |
| 6 | Litill | Litill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tritill | conj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 sit | advmod |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 doing | mark |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sit | advcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 doing | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | Tritill and Litill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Tritill and Litill not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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, they just sat about, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit about | past | they | mate vocative; about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they bossed the ox job, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bossed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bossed | nsubj |
| 4 | bossed | boss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 job | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | compound |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bossed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proper | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bossed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boss | past | they | the ox job | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Nah, they bossed the ox job, proper, and the whole village cheered
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bossed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bossed | nsubj |
| 4 | bossed | boss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 job | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | compound |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bossed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proper | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 job | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 village | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 village | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 village | amod |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bossed | obl |
| 15 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 village | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boss | past | they | the ox job | the whole village obl | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | cheer | participle | the whole village not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, they did the ox job, proper, then went home to sleep off the feast
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 job | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | compound |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proper | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feast | det |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | they | the ox job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | they not said here | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sleep off | to-infinitive | they not said here | the feast | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
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