Test 4 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: babby, Wicked · What happens: reckon, cry

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 babby	nmod:poss
4	babby	babby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wicked	parataxis
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crying	aux
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	babby						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Wicked						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

Mary Cooper's infant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cooper	compound
2	Cooper	Cooper	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 infant	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Cooper	case
4	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sally Bratton's child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 child	nmod:poss
2	Bratton	Bratton	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sally	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Sally	case
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a neighbour's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 neighbour	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Betsy Dun's bairn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Betsy	Betsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bairn	nmod:poss
2	Dun	Dun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Betsy	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Betsy	case
4	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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