Test 3 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Mate, why was the bell quiet that dead calm day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: bell quiet

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quiet	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 quiet	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 quiet	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quiet	compound
7	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dead	nsubj
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quiet	amod
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bell quiet					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 · ✓ the right answer

No waves to shake it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shake	mark
4	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waves	acl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	to-infinitive		it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

No waves at all to shake the bell that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shake	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 waves	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shake	mark
6	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	obj
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	to-infinitive	no waves at all	the bell			day		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bell=Patient

Option 3

Water was too flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 flat	advmod
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The wind was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind					gone 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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