Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…
Charlie from Auckland: «they found Taffy hurt and crying, yeah nah?» (yeah nah = no) What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, Taffy, no · What happens: find, hurt, cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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
Sentence 1: Charlie from Auckland: «they found Taffy hurt and crying, yeah nah?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Auckland | case |
| 3 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charlie | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Charlie | parataxis |
| 8 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hurt | nsubj |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crying | cc |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nah | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 14 nah | discourse |
| 14 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 1 Charlie | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 nah | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 nah | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | they | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | past | Taffy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | they not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: (yeah nah = no) What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 2 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nah | discourse |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 = | discourse |
| 4 | = | = | SYM | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 right | nsubj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | cop |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes: she was hurt by the beavers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 beavers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beavers | det |
| 8 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | the beavers | she | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |
Option 2
No: she was happily making daisy-chains at the river, not crying or hurt at all
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 making | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chains | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 daisy | punct |
| 9 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 crying | advmod |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 making | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 crying | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | she | daisy chains | the river | happily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Product | ||
| 2 | not cry speech: express | gerund | she not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | she not said here | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No: she was happily making daisy-chains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 making | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chains | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 daisy | punct |
| 9 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | she | daisy chains | happily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Product |
Option 4
No: she was happily playing near the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 playing | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 playing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 playing | aux |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 playing | advmod |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | she | the river | happily property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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