Test 3 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy he…
Wait, was he only pretending to be a shoemaker?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, pretend, be · To what, where: shoemaker
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1197 «Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy heals the king's foot and wins the princess's heart» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretending | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pretending | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pretending | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 pretending | advmod |
| 6 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shoemaker | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shoemaker | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shoemaker | det |
| 10 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pretending | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pretend | past · progressive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | he not said here | a shoemaker | 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
Nah, he was legit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 legit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 legit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 legit | cop |
| 5 | legit | legit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | legit property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he was a proper shoemaker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 shoemaker | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shoemaker | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shoemaker | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shoemaker | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoemaker | amod |
| 7 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a proper shoemaker | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was totally faking it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 faking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 faking | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 faking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 faking | aux |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 faking | advmod |
| 6 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 faking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past · progressive | he | it | totally property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, dead fake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fake | amod |
| 4 | fake | fake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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