Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

Bruv, why'd the frog just sit there in the middle of the lake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: frog · What happens: sit · To what, where: middle

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sit	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 frog	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sit	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	infinitive	the frog			the middle of the lake; there		Bruv vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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

He was having a right kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kip	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kip	amod
6	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	He	a right kip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient

Option 2

He was stuck in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stuck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	cop
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			the mud		stuck property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was sulking, proper mardy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulking	aux
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mardy	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mardy	amod
6	mardy	mardy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sulking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past · progressive	He						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He was just bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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