Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…
bruv why'd the stepmum chuck the apple in the chest, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: chuck, innit · To what, where: apple, chest
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | nsubj |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 chuck | advmod |
| 3 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuck | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stepmum | det |
| 5 | stepmum | stepmum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | nsubj |
| 6 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chest | det |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chuck | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | infinitive | bruv | the apple | the chest | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme in chest=Destination | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | bruv not said here | 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
she was jealous cos the girl got the apples first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jealous | cop |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jealous | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 apples | det |
| 9 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the girl | the apples | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
Option 2
dunno, pure chance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 4 chance | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 dunno | punct |
| 3 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chance | amod |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
cos she fancied a snack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snack | det |
| 5 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancied | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | cos | a snack | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snack=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
she was jealous and angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jealous | cop |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 angry | cc |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jealous | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
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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