Test 3 · ★ · Funny pranks
Ruby's friend got a low mark and was raging. What does «raging» mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: get, rage, mean · To what, where: low mark
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 438 «Funny pranks» 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: Ruby's friend got a low mark and was raging.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mark | det |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mark | amod |
| 7 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 raging | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raging | aux |
| 10 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ruby's friend | a low mark | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rage | past · progressive | Ruby's friend not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 does «raging» mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 raging | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 raging | aux |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
| 4 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 raging | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage in a quote | present · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | infinitive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Very hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Very angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 angry | advmod |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Very tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 tired | advmod |
| 2 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 happy | advmod |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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