Test 6 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Dead good, what did the sailors shout about the abbot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: do, shout

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 good	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailors	det
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shout	nsubj
8	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 abbot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 abbot	det
11	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present	the sailors					about the abbot	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about abbot=Topic

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

Cheers, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheers	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Bless the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	imperative	you not said here	the old man					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

God bless him, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bless	nsubj
2	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bless	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bless	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 bless	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	infinitive	God	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Curse him, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curse	curse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Curse	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Curse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	imperative	you not said here	him = he				no way obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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