Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

did peter come back all dirty and gross?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peter · What happens: come back

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	3 come	aux
2	peter	peter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gross	cc
8	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dirty	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support	peter						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah he was pretty dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dirty	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dirty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 dirty	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dirty, pretty property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he was super muddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 muddy	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 muddy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 muddy	advmod
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					muddy, super property	tree rules

Option 4

nah he was clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 clean	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clean	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	cop
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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