Test 7 · ★ · d'Aulnoy, Desiree, part 37: a crab-fairy's curse, a window…

the king was nearly losing it, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: lose, innit · To what, where: it

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1171 «d'Aulnoy, Desiree, part 37: a crab-fairy's curse, a windowless palace, a sick prince» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 losing	aux
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 losing	advmod
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 losing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 losing	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 losing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · progressive	the king	it				nearly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive							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

Yeah, he was sick with worry, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sick	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 worry	case
7	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sick	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with worry and mate; sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was worried sick about his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sick	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sick	cop
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sick	amod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about his son; sick property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was calm about his boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about his boy; calm property	tree rules

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