Test 2 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…

Bruv, the weavers swam across a ravine that was totally dry, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: weavers, ravine · What happens: swim, be, innit · To what, where: ravine

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swam	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weavers	det
4	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swam	nsubj
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 ravine	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ravine	det
8	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dry	cop
11	totally	totally	ADV	_	12 dry	advmod
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ravine	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swam	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the weavers	a ravine	Bruv vocative	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ravine=Trajectory
2	is	past	a ravine		dry, totally property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	the weavers not said here			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

Yeah, they were well daft, like a bunch of muppets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daft	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daft	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 daft	advmod
6	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bunch	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bunch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bunch	det
10	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daft	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 muppets	case
12	muppets	muppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bunch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					daft, well property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, the ravine was flooded, proper wet, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 flooded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flooded	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ravine	det
4	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flooded	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flooded	aux:pass
6	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	amod
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flooded	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flooded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past · passive		the ravine					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Nah, the ravine was flooded, mad, like a bunch of idiots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 flooded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ravine	det
4	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flooded	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flooded	aux:pass
6	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flooded	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bunch	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bunch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bunch	det
12	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flooded	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 idiots	case
14	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bunch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past · passive		the ravine					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, proper daft, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daft	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daft	amod
4	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daft	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 daft	discourse

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

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