Test 1 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…

«toad got 20 years from the magistrates, that's legit how it worked back then right» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad, that · What happens: get, be, work back · To what, where: magistrates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 84 «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
2	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 true	csubj
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 magistrates	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magistrates	det
8	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 legit	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 legit	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 legit	cop
12	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 worked	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worked	nsubj
15	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 legit	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 worked	advmod
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 right	advmod
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 worked	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 true	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	toad	the magistrates	year		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from magistrate=Destination
2	is in a quote	present	that			legit property	tree rules
3	work back in a quote	past	toad			right property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				true property	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

Yes, but only to toads and other animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 toads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 toads	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 toads	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 toads	case
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 animals	cc
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 toads	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, magistrates gave twenty years for almost any crime at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 crime	case
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 crime	advmod
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 crime	det
10	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 crime	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	magistrates				year	for any crime at all	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for crime=Asset

Option 3

No, magistrates could only give the death sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sentence	det
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sentence	compound
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	could	magistrates	the death sentence					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, magistrates could only give short sentences of months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sentences	amod
8	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sentences	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	could	magistrates	short sentences of months					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
2	sentence			months					nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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