Test 6 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treas…

was he really mayor like three times or is that a lie

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: mayor, lie

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1463 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treasure, marries Alice and becomes Lord Mayor» 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	4 mayor	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mayor	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 mayor	advmod
4	mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mayor	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 lie	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lie	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lie	det
12	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mayor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	mayor or a lie			time		tree rules
2	is a	present	he not said here	a lie					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

three times, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 up	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

nope, just once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, he was mayor like five times, the history books say so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mayor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mayor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mayor	aux:pass
5	mayor	mayor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mayor	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 books	det
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 books	compound
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mayor	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mayor	past · passive		he			time		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the history books						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

once, then he quit lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 quit	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 once	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 quit	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quit	nsubj
5	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 quit	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	past	he				then	once property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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