Test 11 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

so the brothers were well lazy, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: brothers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lazy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 they	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 they	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers					lazy, well property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		brothers = brother					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

aye, dead lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	amod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

aye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

aye, dead idle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 idle	amod
4	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

naw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	naw	naw	INTJ	_	root	root

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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