Test 12 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Why'd the English get caught napping, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: catch, nap, innit · To what, where: English

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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	6 caught	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 English	det
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caught	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux:pass
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	napping	nap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 caught	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 napping	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	would · passive	the English	tree rules
2	nap	gerund		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive		tree rules

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

Nobody warned them early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	obj
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 warned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Nobody		them = they			early property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

They had no guards up

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	up	up	ADV	_	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have up	past	They	no guards					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient

Option 3

They were drunk

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 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		They					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They weren't expecting the Scots lot

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	4 expecting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 expecting	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 expecting	advmod
4	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scots	det
6	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 expecting	obj
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Scots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not expect	past · progressive	They	the Scots and lot					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scot=Theme

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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