Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Mate, what did the Doctor reckon the sweating meant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Doctor · What happens: reckon, mean · To what, where: Mate, sweating

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Doctor	det
6	Doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sweating	det
9	sweating	sweating	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sweating	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the Doctor	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme sweating=Attribute
2	mean	participle		the sweating not said here					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 · ← Mova's choice

A bad sign, mate, he's going to die soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sign	amod
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sign	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 die	mark
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 die	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	a bad sign and mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	to-infinitive	a bad sign and mate not said here					soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Just a fever, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 fever	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fever	det
3	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fever	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A good sign, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sign	amod
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	conj

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

Option 4

Nothing to worry about, bruv, it's just sweating from heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 worry	mark
3	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 worry	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweating	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sweating	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sweating	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sweating	advmod
11	sweating	sweat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 heat	case
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sweating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	to-infinitive						about property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sweat	present · progressive	bruv			heat			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from heat=Source

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