Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy clim…
The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats · What happens: gas
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cats | det |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gassing | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gassing | aux |
| 4 | gassing | gas | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 lovers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lovers | det |
| 7 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gassing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yeah | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gassing | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gassing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gas | present · progressive | the cats | about the lovers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, they're on about a picnic, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 picnic | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 picnic | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 picnic | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 picnic | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 picnic | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 picnic | det |
| 8 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picnic | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | a picnic | mate vocative; about property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, they're chatting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 chatting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chatting | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chatting | aux |
| 5 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | present · progressive | they | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they're on about wanting a fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 wanting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanting | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanting | aux |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 wanting | mark |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 wanting | mark |
| 7 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · progressive | they | a fight | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=Theme |
Option 4
Nah mate, they're on about the wine, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 wine | discourse |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nah | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wine | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wine | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 wine | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 wine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wine | det |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wine | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | about the wine and bruv | tree rules |
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