Test 1 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Yo, why was Dick knackered on the doorstep, like proper dead beat?

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

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the sea» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 knackered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knackered	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Dick	cop
5	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knackered	nsubj
6	knackered	knacker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 doorstep	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doorstep	det
9	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knackered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beat	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 beat	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beat	amod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beat	amod
14	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knackered	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 knackered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Dick					tree rules
2	knacker	past	Dick			the doorstep		like proper dead beat	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 · ✓ the right answer

He hadn't eaten for three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	He				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He was locked out all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 locked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 locked	aux:pass
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 locked	compound:prt
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock out	past · passive		He			night		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He was too weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He'd been sleeping rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeping	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	He					rough property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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