Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Was John scared of the dead man, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: John · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» of the books 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nsubj
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	3 scared	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	John					of the dead man; scared property	tree rules

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

Yeah, he was bricking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bricking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bricking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bricking	aux
5	bricking	brick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bricking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brick	past · progressive	he	it					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was chill, had a clear head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	cop
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					chill property	tree rules
2	have	past	he not said here	a clear head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he was dead calm, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calm	amod
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					calm property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he had a clean conscience, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 conscience	det
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 conscience	amod
7	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conscience	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a clean conscience and innit					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient

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