Test 9 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Was Jurgen a total nerd or a clever one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Jurgen

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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 Jurgen	cop
2	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nerd	det
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nerd	amod
5	nerd	nerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jurgen	appos
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 one	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nerd	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Jurgen	punct

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

Clever, the cleverest of the two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADV	_	4 cleverest	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Clever	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cleverest	det
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 two	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 two	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cleverest	nmod

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

Option 2

Clever, but not the brightest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADV	_	6 brightest	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brightest	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 brightest	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 brightest	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brightest	det
6	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 3

A total nerd who spent all his time reading old books at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nerd	det
2	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nerd	amod
3	nerd	nerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nerd	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 time	nmod:poss
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
9	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spent	advcl
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 books	amod
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reading	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	a total nerd				night; time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	read	gerund	a total nerd not said here	old books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

Clever, though Martin was the one who always got the top marks at school

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Clever	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 one	mark
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 got	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 got	advmod
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marks	det
12	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marks	amod
13	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 school	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Martin	the one				clever property	tree rules
2	get	past	the one	the top marks		school		always property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mark=Theme at school=Asset

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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