Test 7 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet, part 48:…

ngl the snake king was a bit of a loser, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: bit

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1797 «Gutenberg 641, The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet, part 48: a dying mother hides her daughter's beauty, and a rich young man wants to marry the girl in the helmet» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 loser	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loser	det
10	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	a bit				of a loser	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

yeah, he was kinda weak and lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 weak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weak	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weak	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lame	cc
8	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					kinda, weak property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he was pretty lazy and rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	aux
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rude	cc
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	conj

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

Option 3

nah, he was just grumpy and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grumpy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 grumpy	advmod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cold	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grumpy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					grumpy property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was just sad and kinda chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chill	cc
8	kinda	kinda	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chill	amod
9	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules

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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