Test 11 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

lol, what did the fishing look like back in the day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fishing · What happens: look

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishing	det
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 back	case
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the fishing				day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 shoals were thick and the fish grew enormous in the old days, honestly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoals	det
2	shoals	shoal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thick	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	conj
9	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 days	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 days	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
15	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 thick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shoals					honestly, thick property	tree rules
2	grow	past	the fish				day	enormous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fish were huge and way more plentiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huge	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 way	cc
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 huge	conj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 plentiful	advmod
7	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 huge	advcl

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

Option 3

boats caught nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 caught	obj
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	boats	nothing					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 4

fish were huge, way more plentiful, and easy to catch from shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huge	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 huge	obl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 plentiful	advmod
7	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 huge	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 easy	cc
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 huge	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 catch	mark
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	xcomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 shore	case
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	fish		way obl; huge property	tree rules
2	be		fish not said here			tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	fish not said here	shore		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from shore=Source

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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