Test 10 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

Did the neighbours reckon Guleesh was acting weird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: neighbours · What happens: reckon, act · To what, where: Guleesh

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1985 «Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb and Guleesh hides her at the priest's house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 acting	advcl
5	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 acting	aux
7	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 acting	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the neighbours	Guleesh					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent guleesh=Attribute
2	act	past · progressive						weird property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, they said he's not the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 same	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	he					same property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, they thought he'd gone off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 gone	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go off	past · perfect	he						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they reckoned he'd been acting really odd ever since he came back from the bog

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 acting	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 acting	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 acting	aux
8	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reckoned	ccomp
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 odd	advmod
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 acting	xcomp
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 acting	advmod
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckoned	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 bog	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bog	det
18	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	act	past · perfect · progressive	he		ever	odd property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	he	the bog			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bog=Initial_Location

Option 4

Nah, they all said he seemed fine and was just the same lad as always, no bother

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seemed	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lad	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lad	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 lad	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lad	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lad	amod
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 always	case
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 lad	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bother	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 bother	det
19	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lad	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seem	past	he		fine property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	they not said here	the same lad		tree rules

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