Test 3 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…

Was Grumbler gutted when the cock was a dud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock · What happens: gut, be · To what, where: Grumbler, dud

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» 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	3 gutted	aux:pass
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	nsubj:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 dud	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cock	det
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dud	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dud	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dud	det
9	dud	dud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		Grumbler					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	is a	past	the cock	a dud					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

Yeah, he went mental and threw the basket at the wife and kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 basket	det
9	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kids	cc
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	he not said here	the basket				at the wife and kids	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at wife=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, he went proper mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he swore like mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 mad	case
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he					like mad	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he just laughed it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	he	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1215-pg3282-part16/t3/