Test 1 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

ngl the nephews were so sus, what were they faking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nephews · What happens: ngl, be, fake

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nephews	det
3	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sus	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sus	advmod
6	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 faking	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 faking	obj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 faking	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 faking	nsubj
11	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sus	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is	past	the nephews	suspect property	tree rules
3	fake	past · progressive	nephews = nephew		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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

acting like his cousin's kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	6 kin	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cousin	case
6	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 acting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund						like his cousin's kin	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like kin=Attribute

Option 2

spying on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spying	spy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 spying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spy	gerund						on him = he	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

being his cousin's best mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 his	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mates	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cousin	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 mates	amod
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		his = he					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

pretending to be his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 friends	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		his friends					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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