Test 10 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…
Was Becfola feeling bothered about Crimthann at all?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Becfola · What happens: feel, bother · To what, where: all
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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 feeling | aux |
| 2 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feeling | nsubj |
| 3 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feeling | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 Crimthann | case |
| 6 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bothered | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bothered | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · progressive | Becfola | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bother | participle | Becfola not said here | all | about Crimthann | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Nah, she thought he was dead funny and a bit daft, and she laughed about his lawn fight all morning
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 funny | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 funny | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funny | amod |
| 8 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 daft | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daft | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funny | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 lawn | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lawn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughed | obl |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 laughed | ccomp |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 morning | det |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fight | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | he not said here | a bit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | she | about his lawn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | infinitive | she not said here | morning | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, she thought he was a bit of a dork
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dork | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dork | det |
| 11 | dork | dork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a bit | of a dork | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she kinda missed him and felt bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 missed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 missed | advmod |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 missed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | conj |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | she | him = he | kinda property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | feel | past | she not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she thought he was dead funny and a bit daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 funny | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 funny | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funny | amod |
| 8 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 daft | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daft | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funny | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | he not said here | a bit | tree rules |
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