Test 5 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Them dwarfs were proper minging, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Them dwarfs · What happens: be, ming

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Them	them	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwarfs	compound
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 proper	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proper	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	minging	ming	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 proper	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proper	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 they	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Them dwarfs					proper property	tree rules
2	ming	gerund	Them dwarfs 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

They wore sealskin coats

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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coats	compound
4	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	They	sealskin coats					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were made of sealskin

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 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sealskin	case
5	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		They				of sealskin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

They were cold and grumpy

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 cold	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grumpy	cc
5	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					cold property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 4

They were smelly

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

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