Test 2 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

Bruv, what were his mates always going on about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go on

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 going	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mates	nmod:poss
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	about	about	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive						Bruv vocative; about, always property	vn function-105.2.1 «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

How he was the bravest bloke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bloke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bloke	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bloke	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
5	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bloke	amod
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the bravest bloke					tree rules

Option 2

How he was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 rich	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

How he was the greatest man ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 man	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 man	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the greatest man			ever		tree rules

Option 4

How he could sail the seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sail	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sail	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sail	aux
4	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seas	det
6	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sail	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	could	he	the seas					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

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