Test 9 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Lol, what did the pilot reckon he could hear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pilot · What happens: reckon, hear

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 reckon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pilot	det
6	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reckon	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the pilot						tree rules
2	hear	could	pilot						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

Thunder booming far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 booming	compound
2	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 booming	advmod

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

Option 2

Bell ringing near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Bell	acl
3	near	near	ADV	_	2 ringing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	gerund	Bell not said here					near property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Breakers crashing near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Breakers	acl
3	near	near	ADV	_	2 crashing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	gerund	Breakers not said here					near property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Crashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	gerund							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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