Test 4 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Mate, what did the crowd reckon about the gazelle dying?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 gazelle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gazelle	det
10	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reckon	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the crowd	Mate				about the gazelle	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	die	gerund	the crowd not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

They wailed like kin had died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wailed	nsubj
2	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 died	mark
4	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wailed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wail	past	They						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past · perfect	kin						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

They cried loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	They					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They wept like it was their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 own	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 own	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 own	cop
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	They						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					own property	tree rules

Option 4

They cried as for kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 kin	case
4	for	for	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	They					as kin	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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