Test 11 · ★ · Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and trave…
ok but why were there so many herring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 there | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 there | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 herring | amod |
| 8 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many herring obl:unmarked; there property | 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
Nets just kept on filling, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 filling | case |
| 5 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filling | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | Nets | filling and innit | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on filling=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The sea was rammed with them, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rammed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rammed | aux:pass |
| 4 | rammed | ram | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rammed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rammed | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ram | past · passive | the sea | with them = they; mate vocative | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
They came in from the north, mate
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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 north | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | They | the north and mate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from north=Initial_Location |
Option 4
The sea was so full of them that the boats couldn't even move through the water, bruv
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 full | advmod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boats | det |
| 10 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 move | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 move | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 move | advmod |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 move | advmod |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 full | advcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 move | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bruv | punct |
| 19 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 water | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | of them = they; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not move | could | the boats | the water and bruv | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |
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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