Test 8 · ★ · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Adam bloke · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: Son

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Son	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Son	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Son	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Son	det
6	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mad	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bloke	case
8	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bloke	compound
9	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Son	nmod
10	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bloke	acl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 moaning	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Son				of Adam bloke	tree rules
2	moan	gerund	Adam bloke not said here					about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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 · ← Mova's choice

having to dig in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 dig	mark
3	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 having	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund							tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive				the rain			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location

Option 2

working in the cold snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 snow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snow	amod
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund						in the cold snow	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme

Option 3

having to graft in the heat while his mates just sat and sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sang	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 graft	mark
3	graft	graft	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 having	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 graft	nmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 having	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	gerund		graft	the heat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graft=Patient
2	sit	past	his mates			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	having			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

having to graft in the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 graft	mark
3	graft	graft	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 having	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		graft		the heat			vn birth-28.2-1 «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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