Test 3 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Raja Rasalu, part 25: a mocking princ…

mate, was the graveyard lowkey creepy or just dead quiet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be · To what, where: creepy quiet

This is test 3 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quiet	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lowkey	det
5	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lowkey	compound
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quiet	nsubj
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quiet	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 dead	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 dead	advmod
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creepy	conj
11	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 quiet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mate	creepy quiet					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 · ✓ the right answer

it was creepy as anything

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	3 creepy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 creepy	cop
3	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 creepy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					as anything; creepy property	tree rules

Option 2

it was dead silent, no sound

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 silent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silent	amod
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					no sound obl; silent property	tree rules

Option 3

quite creepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 creepy	advmod
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

it was quiet

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	3 quiet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					quiet 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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