Test 3 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework
Lad in Leeds: «was proper poorly, miss» — but his mate says «you were bossing it in the ginnel last night». What's a ginnel?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, ginnel · What happens: be, say, boss · To what, where: poorly miss, mate, ginnel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: Lad in Leeds: «was proper poorly, miss» — but his mate says «you were bossing it in the ginnel last night».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Leeds | case |
| 3 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lad | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 miss | cop |
| 7 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 10 miss | advmod |
| 8 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 10 miss | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 poorly | punct |
| 10 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lad | appos |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lad | parataxis |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 bossing | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bossing | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bossing | aux |
| 20 | bossing | boss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 says | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bossing | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ginnel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ginnel | det |
| 24 | ginnel | ginnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bossing | obl |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 night | amod |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bossing | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 bossing | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | poorly miss | properly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Leeds's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | boss in a quote | past · progressive | you | mate | the ginnel | night | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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.
Sentence 2: What's a ginnel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ginnel | det |
| 4 | ginnel | ginnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a ginnel | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A doctor's busy waiting room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 doctor | case |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 5 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | compound |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A kind of football boot with studs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boot | case |
| 4 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boot | compound |
| 5 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 studs | case |
| 7 | studs | stud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A school playground with goals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 playground | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playground | compound |
| 3 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 goals | case |
| 5 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 playground | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A narrow alley between houses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 alley | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 alley | amod |
| 3 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 houses | case |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 alley | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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