Test 10 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…
Peak, why did the other lads turn on Tom?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: other lads · What happens: turn · To what, where: Tom
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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 | Peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 turn | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lads | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lads | amod |
| 7 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Peak | appos |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Tom | case |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peak | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | the other lads | Tom | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on tom=Trajectory |
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
he was a cheat
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 cheat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cheat | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cheat | det |
| 4 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a cheat | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
his work was done and theirs undone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 undone | cc |
| 6 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 undone | nsubj |
| 7 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | his work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | undo | participle | theirs = they | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work | his = he | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
he got the easy jobs
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jobs | det |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jobs | amod |
| 5 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the easy jobs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus |
Option 4
he cheated on the pay
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 cheated | nsubj |
| 2 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 pay | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pay | det |
| 5 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cheated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | past | he | the pay | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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