Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Who came strolling back from the other world, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: come, stroll back · To what, where: other world

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strolling	stroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 strolling	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strolling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	2 came	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stroll back	gerund				the other world			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from world=Trajectory

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

The sick bloke, pale as a ghost and looking dead as a doorknob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 ghost	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ghost	det
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pale	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bloke	conj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looking	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 doorknob	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 doorknob	det
14	doorknob	doorknob	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						as a doorknob; dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sick bloke, pale as a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 ghost	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ghost	det
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pale	obl

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

Option 3

The old geezer, pale and grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 geezer	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 geezer	amod
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 geezer	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grey	cc
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj

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

Option 4

The whole village, creeping back from the grave like zombies, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 village	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 village	amod
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 creeping	punct
5	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 village	acl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 creeping	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 creeping	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 zombies	case
11	zombies	zombie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grave	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 village	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep back	gerund	the whole village and innit not said here			the grave like zombies			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from grave=Trajectory

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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