Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

was the mum Bunyip mad, or just kinda chill about it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: mum

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mum	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
4	Bunyip	Bunyip	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mad	compound
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chill	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 chill	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 chill	advmod
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	10 chill	advmod
10	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mad	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chill	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mum					tree rules
2	chill	infinitive						about it; kinda property	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

furious and screaming loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 screaming	cc
3	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 furious	conj
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 screaming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund						loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

calm and quiet, just sad inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quiet	cc
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 calm	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 calm	conj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

mad, with yellow eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eyes	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 mad	obl

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

Option 4

furious and hunting for her cub all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunting	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hunting	cc
3	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cub	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cub	nmod:poss
6	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunting	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund					night	for her cub	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for cub=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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