Test 5 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

Those clerics were proper creepy, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerics · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 clerics	det
2	clerics	cleric	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 creepy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creepy	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creepy	amod
5	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 creepy	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 creepy	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 creepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that clerics					creepy 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the lean one with the strangling fingers was mad, and the whole lot of them stank of the lawn fight

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mad	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mad	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fingers	det
8	strangling	strangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fingers	compound
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	cop
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stank	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stank	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lot	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lot	amod
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stank	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lot	nmod
19	stank	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 fight	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fight	det
22	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fight	compound
23	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lean one with the strangling fingers					mad property	tree rules
2	stink	past	the whole lot of fingers					of the lawn fight	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of fight=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the lean one with the strangling fingers was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mad	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fingers	det
8	strangling	strangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fingers	compound
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	cop
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lean one with the strangling fingers					mad property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, the big one was quite friendly, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 friendly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friendly	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friendly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 friendly	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 friendly	advmod
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honestly	punct
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	8 friendly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the big one					friendly, honestly property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, the abbot was just a bit grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 abbot	det
4	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grumpy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grumpy	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 grumpy	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grumpy	obl:unmarked
9	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the abbot					a bit obl:unmarked; grumpy property	tree rules

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