Test 6 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…
Was Mongan's sickness proper bad at the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sickness · What happens: be · To what, where: end
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 2 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sickness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mongan | case |
| 4 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bad | amod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mongan's sickness | at the end | bad 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he wasted away like a skeleton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wasted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wasted | nsubj |
| 4 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 wasted | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 skeleton | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skeleton | det |
| 8 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste away | past | he | like a skeleton; away property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he was fine in the end, he recovered and feasted with his lads
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recovered | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 recovered | nsubj |
| 11 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feasted | cc |
| 13 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 recovered | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lads | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feasted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | in the end | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | recover | past | he | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feast | past | he not said here | with his lads | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, he got proper skinny, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skinny | amod |
| 6 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | proper skinny | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skinny=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nah, he got fat and happy, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happy | cc |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fat | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | mate vocative; fat property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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