Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…
Oi, that thistle reckoned it'd get shoved in a pot, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thistle · What happens: reckon, shove · To what, where: thistle, pot
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 5 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thistle | det |
| 4 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reckoned | nsubj |
| 5 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shoved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 shoved | aux |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shoved | aux:pass |
| 9 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reckoned | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pot | det |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shoved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckoned | punct |
| 14 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 reckoned | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | that thistle | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shove | would · passive | thistle | a pot | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in pot=Destination |
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, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, course it got shoved in, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 shoved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | course | course | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shoved | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shoved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shoved | aux:pass |
| 6 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 shoved | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoved | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove | infinitive · passive | it | mate vocative | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it never got no pot, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past | it | no pot and mate | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nah, no pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 pot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 pot | det |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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