Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Mate, what was the herb thing about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: herb thing

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 thing	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the herb thing				about property	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'd taste bitter

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 taste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It					bitter property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It'd taste sweet

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 taste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Bitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

It'd taste sour

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 taste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It					sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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