Test 12 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…
Did Dermod even look sorry about any of it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dermod · What happens: look
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 2 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 any | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 any | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | Dermod | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he was grinning through the whole thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 grinning | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grinning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grinning | aux |
| 5 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grinning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past · progressive | he | the whole thing | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, he looked really sorry and kept shaking his head at the clerics' gold for ages
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clerics | det |
| 14 | clerics | cleric | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gold | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 clerics | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ages | case |
| 18 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shaking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | he | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | he not said here | his head | the clerics's gold | for ages | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at gold=Trajectory |
Option 3
Yeah, he looked gutted about his brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 gutted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gutted | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gutted | aux:pass |
| 5 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gutted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | he | about his brothers | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was just messing about the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 messing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 messing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 messing | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 messing | advmod |
| 6 | messing | mess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 messing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mess | past · progressive | he | time | tree rules |
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