Test 8 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

«bruv he cried crocodile tears when he lost the game, proper actor» What does that mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, that · What happens: cry, lose, mean · To what, where: crocodile tears, game

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tears	compound
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 actor	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 actor	amod
14	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 mean	obj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mean	aux
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 mean	nsubj
19	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lost	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	bruv	crocodile tears	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Topic
2	lose in a quote	past	bruv	the game	tree rules
3	mean	present · do-support	that		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

He laughed until he cried

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 cried	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He was really, truly heartbroken

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 heartbroken	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heartbroken	aux:pass
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 heartbroken	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heartbroken	punct
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	6 heartbroken	advmod
6	heartbroken	heartbroken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heartbroken	past · passive		He				truly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He pretended to be sad

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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 sad	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	He not said here					sad property	tree rules

Option 4

He cried so much he made a river

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	he	a river					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Product

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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