Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

Yo, what did the Princess reckon of Jack's answers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: Princess reckon

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reckon	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	compound
7	reckon	reckon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 answers	case
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answers	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Jack	case
11	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Princess reckon of Jack's answers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality
2	answer		Jack						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 thought his answers were well daft but ever so funny

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 answers	nmod:poss
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 daft	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daft	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 daft	advmod
7	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 funny	cc
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 funny	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 funny	advmod
11	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	his answers		daft, well property	tree rules
3	be		his answers not said here	ever		tree rules
4	answer		his = he			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

She found him quite rude

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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 rude	advmod
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	She	him = he				rude property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 3

She reckoned he was the cleverest bloke she had met in ages

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	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bloke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	ccomp
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 met	aux
10	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bloke	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 ages	case
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reckon	past	She			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	the cleverest bloke		tree rules
3	meet	past · perfect	she	the cleverest bloke not said here	in ages	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She thought he was well sharp

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sharp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sharp	advmod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					sharp, well property	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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