Test 4 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Was Tom a bit of a swot at school, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Tom

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tom	cop
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod:poss
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 swot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swot	det
7	swot	swot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swot	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	4 bit	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct

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

He was bottom of class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bottom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bottom	cop
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 class	case
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	bottom				of class	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He came top in maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 maths	case
5	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	He			maths		top property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in math=Location

Option 3

He was top of his class and everyone said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 top	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 top	cop
3	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 class	nmod:poss
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 top	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of his class; top property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was top of his class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 top	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 top	cop
3	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 class	nmod:poss
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of his class; top 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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