Test 3 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

Why did Canute get so fed up with them, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Canute · What happens: get, feed up

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fed	advmod
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 get	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 fed	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Canute					mate vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	feed up	participle	Canute not said here					with them = they	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

They were talking pure rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubbish	amod
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	They	pure rubbish					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rubbish=Patient

Option 2

They were talking proper nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nonsense	amod
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	They	proper nonsense					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient

Option 3

They were talking pure rubbish and wasting all his time at the seaside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubbish	amod
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wasting	cc
7	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 talking	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wasting	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 seaside	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seaside	det
13	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	They	pure rubbish					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rubbish=Patient
2	waste	gerund	They not said here			the seaside	time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were being really annoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 annoying	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoying	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 annoying	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 annoying	advmod
5	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					annoying 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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