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Test 2 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…

The crowd pelts Toad «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words». Which old punishment is that like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: pelt · To what, where: Toad

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 84 «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history 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: The crowd pelts Toad «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pelts	nsubj
3	pelts	pelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pelts	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 jeers	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 jeers	case
7	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pelts	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carrots	punct
9	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jeers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 words	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
12	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
13	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 words	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jeers	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 jeers	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pelts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pelt	present	the crowd		Toad			with jeers and carrots and popular catch words	vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent toad=Destination with jeer=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: Which old punishment is that like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 punishment	nsubj
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 punishment	amod
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 like	mark
6	like	like	INTJ	_	3 punishment	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 punishment	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The stocks, where people jeered and threw rotten food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stocks	det
2	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jeered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jeered	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 jeered	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jeered	nsubj
6	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jeered	conj
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jeer	past	the stocks						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	the stocks not said here	rotten food					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2

The treadwheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 treadwheel	det
2	treadwheel	treadwheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Transportation, where prisoners were sent to Australia on ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Transportation	transportation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 sent	advmod
4	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Australia	case
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 ships	case
10	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Transportation	Australia	ships			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to australia=Destination

Option 4

A fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fine	det
2	fine	fine	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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