Test 5 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…
A girl of 12 in 1850 steals a loaf. What might have happened to her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: steal, happen · To what, where: loaf, girl
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl of 12 in 1850 steals a loaf.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steals | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 12 | case |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1850 | case |
| 6 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 12 | nmod |
| 7 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 loaf | det |
| 9 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steals | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 steals | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | a girl of 12 in 1850 | a loaf | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loaf=Theme |
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: What might have happened to her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | might · perfect | girl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She would have been given a medal for being hungry
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 | 5 given | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medal | det |
| 7 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hungry | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hungry | cop |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would · perfect · passive | She | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient medal=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 2
She would have been made a magistrate
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 | 5 made | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magistrate | det |
| 7 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would · perfect · passive | She | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary magistrate=Product |
Option 3
She would have been sent to a special youth court, as today
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 | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 8 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 court | amod |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 court | compound |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 today | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 today | case |
| 13 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | would · perfect · passive | She | a special youth court | today | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She could have been sent to prison, or even transported
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 | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 transported | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 transported | cc |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 transported | advmod |
| 11 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | could · perfect · passive | She | prison | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination | ||||
| 2 | transport | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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