Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king'…

ngl the cellar part was so depressing, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cellar part · What happens: ngl, depress

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	compound
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depressing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 depressing	aux
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 depressing	advmod
7	depressing	depress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 ngl	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	1 ngl	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	depress	past · progressive	the cellar part						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 · ← Mova's choice

ngl, the rats were the real villains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 villains	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 villains	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 villains	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 villains	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 villains	amod
8	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ngl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the rats	the real villains					tree rules

Option 2

fr, the cellar was dark and gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cellar	det
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gross	cc
8	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr					dark property	tree rules
2	be		fr not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fr, the sons were so cringe about Jack being poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cringe	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cringe	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cringe	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 cringe	advmod
7	cringe	cringe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 Jack	case
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cringe	obl
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 poor	cop
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cringe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr					about Jack; cringe property	tree rules
2	is	gerund	fr not said here					poor property	tree rules

Option 4

ngl, it was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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