Test 10 · ★ · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

No way, why do you reckon the man stared at the dish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, way · What happens: reckon, stare · To what, where: man

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stared	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reckon	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 way	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obj
10	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 dish	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dish	det
13	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stared	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	you	the man					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Attribute
2	stare	past	no way					at the dish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dish=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

he was curious, fam

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 curious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fam	punct
5	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curious	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					curious property	tree rules

Option 2

he was bored

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 3

he was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was nosy, bruv

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 nosy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nosy	cop
3	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nosy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					nosy property	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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