Test 5 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

What was the collector like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: collector · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 collector	det
4	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 collector	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

Dead grumpy and gutted, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grumpy	amod
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gutted	cc
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grumpy	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 grumpy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Grumpy, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grumpy	punct
3	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 Grumpy	discourse

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

Option 3

Proper cross and sulky, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cross	amod
2	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sulky	cc
4	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cross	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cross	conj

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

Option 4

Dead miserable, a right moaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 miserable	amod
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moaner	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moaner	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moaner	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moaner	amod
6	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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