Test 3 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Why'd Jane start bawling, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jane, you · What happens: start, bawl, innit

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	4 start	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
4	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 innit	advcl
5	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 start	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	start	would	Jane	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bawl speech: other	gerund	Jane not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	imperative	you not said here	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

George hit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	George	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 2

She was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The dragon was very loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dwarfs said scary things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dwarfs	scary things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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