Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Why did the young men look so grumpy and sour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young men · What happens: look

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» 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 look	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 grumpy	advmod
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sour	cc
10	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grumpy	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the young men					grumpy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

They had bad moods

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	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moods	amod
4	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	bad moods					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Patient

Option 2

They were bilious

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 bilious	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bilious	cop
3	bilious	bilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

They were all in a sour mood

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	7 mood	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mood	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	7 mood	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mood	det
6	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mood	amod
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			a sour mood		all property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were all in a bilious mood

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	7 mood	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mood	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	7 mood	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mood	det
6	bilious	bilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mood	amod
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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