Test 14 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

what was he thinking about at work all day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: think

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 thinking	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	he				day	about work	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

thinking about the boss and his strange orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 boss	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boss	det
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 thinking	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 orders	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 orders	nmod:poss
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 orders	amod
8	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						about the boss and his strange orders	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about boss=Topic
2	order		his = he						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

counting the hours to get back to the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hours	det
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 counting	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 counting	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund					hour		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	get back	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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