Test 6 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of th…

What was the Carl like when he came bumping into camp, grand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, come, bump · To what, where: Carl, camp

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1059 «Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of the Iron is beaten and the Carl is revealed as a god» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 Carl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Carl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Carl	det
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Carl	advcl
9	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 camp	case
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bumping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grand	punct
13	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Carl	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Carl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the Carl		tree rules
2	come	past	he			tree rules
3	bump	gerund	he not said here		camp	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into camp=Location
4	be					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Like a big messy lad, bawling for meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 lad	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
4	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bawling	punct
7	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lad	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 meal	case
9	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bawling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	gerund	a big messy lad not said here					for meal	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for meal=Recipient

Option 2

Like a messy lad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 lad	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lad	det
3	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct

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

Option 3

Like a dirty old man, roaring for bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roaring	punct
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 man	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund	a dirty old man not said here					for bread	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for bread=Recipient

Option 4

Bawling, like.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bawling	bawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Bawling	discourse
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bawling	punct

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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