Test 9 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…
Mad, what did Whittington reckon being Lord Mayor would mean?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whittington, Lord · What happens: reckon, be, mean · To what, where: Lord
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reckon | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 reckon | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reckon | aux |
| 5 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reckon | nsubj |
| 6 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mad | conj |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Lord | cop |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 9 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reckon | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | Whittington | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | Lord | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | would | Lord | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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
Having a grand house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a grand house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
Option 2
Wearing a fine cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wearing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | a fine cloak | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Living in a great house with servants and a horse of his own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Living | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Living | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 horse | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servants | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a great house | with servants and a horse of horse's own | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Riding in a fine coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 coach | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coach | amod |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Riding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | gerund | a fine coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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