Test 3 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…
Was Nur Mahomed knackered when he got to the town at noon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nur · What happens: be, knacker, get · To what, where: Nur
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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 | 2 Nur | cop |
| 2 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knackered | nsubj |
| 3 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nur | flat |
| 4 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knackered | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 noon | case |
| 12 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 knackered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nur | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | knacker | past | Nur | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Nur | noon | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |
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
Yeah, stiff, dry and thirsty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 stiff | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stiff | punct |
| 3 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stiff | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thirsty | cc |
| 7 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stiff | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, not at all, rested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 rested | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nah | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 tired | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, dusty and exhausted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dusty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dusty | punct |
| 3 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 exhausted | cc |
| 5 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dusty | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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