Test 5 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…

Yo, what's the switch actually for, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: switch

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 switch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 switch	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 switch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 switch	det
6	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 switch	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 innit	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 switch	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 switch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the switch				actually property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Dusting jackets, and thrashing folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dusting	dusting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jackets	compound
2	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thrashing	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thrashing	cc
5	thrashing	thrash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 jackets	acl
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrashing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrash	gerund	Dusting jackets not said here	folk					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient

Option 2

Hitting folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund		folk					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme folk=Co-Theme

Option 3

Shooing flies, and beating folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shooing	shoo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shooing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beating	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 beating	cc
5	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shooing	conj
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoo	gerund		flies					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
2	beat	gerund		folk					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location folk=Theme

Option 4

Dusting coats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dusting	dusting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coats	compound
2	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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