Test 10 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

bro, what did the cricket reckon about the job?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cricket · What happens: reckon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1841 «Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking prince, a talking corpse, a clever cricket» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	vocative
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 cricket	det
6	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 job	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 job	det
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the cricket					about the job; bro vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer

it was dead easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	amod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was dead easy, he reckoned, once the seeds were sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	amod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckoned	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sorted	punct
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 sorted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seeds	det
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sorted	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sorted	aux:pass
13	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 easy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			easy property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	sort	past · passive		the seeds		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

it was dead easy for a crafty cricket with patience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	amod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 cricket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cricket	det
7	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cricket	amod
8	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 easy	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 patience	case
10	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cricket	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for a crafty cricket with patience; easy property	tree rules

Option 4

it was a trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trap	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trap	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a trap					tree rules

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