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Test 6 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

Grandad grumbles «don't mind him, he's got the hump». What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: grumble, not mind, get, mean · To what, where: Grandad, hump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language 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: Grandad grumbles «don't mind him, he's got the hump».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grumbles	nsubj
2	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 mind	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 mind	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mind	advmod
6	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grumbles	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mind	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 mind	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hump	det
13	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grumbles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	Grandad						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not mind in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Grandad					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	get in a quote	present · passive	Grandad	the hump					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=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.

Sentence 2: What does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Grandad						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has eaten too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	He	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 2

He has a bad back after gardening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 back	amod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 gardening	case
7	gardening	gardening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	a bad back			after gardening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 3

He has turned into a camel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 camel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · perfect	He			a camel			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into camel=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is in a sulky mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mood	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mood	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mood	det
5	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mood	amod
6	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			a sulky mood			tree rules

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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