Test 6 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

why did Quicksilver crack up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Quicksilver · What happens: crack up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 crack	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crack	aux
3	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crack	nsubj
4	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 crack	compound:prt
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack up	past · do-support	Quicksilver						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

he thought the gormandizer joke was funny

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	gormandizer	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	compound
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 funny	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 funny	cop
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the gormandizer joke					funny property	tree rules

Option 2

he thought the gormandizer joke about greedy pigs was hilarious

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	gormandizer	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	compound
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hilarious	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 pigs	case
7	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pigs	amod
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joke	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hilarious	cop
10	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the gormandizer joke about greedy pigs					hilarious property	tree rules

Option 3

he was laughing at a silly pig joke

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 laughing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 joke	amod
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joke	compound
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	he			a silly pig joke			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

someone told a funny joke about eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 joke	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	someone	a funny joke					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient
2	eat	gerund	a funny joke not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «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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