Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

was the youth gutted or lit when he got turned into a swan?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, lit, turn · To what, where: youth, he, swan

This is test 7 · ★ 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 youth	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 youth	acl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 lit	cc
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gutted	conj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 turned	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lit	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 swan	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 youth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the youth		tree rules
2	gut	participle	the youth not said here		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lit	participle			tree rules
4	turn	past · passive	he	a swan	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into swan=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

gutted, for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 gutted	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 sure	case
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 gutted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for sure	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

happy, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 happy	punct
3	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 happy	advmod

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

Option 3

relieved to be free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 free	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 relieved	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						free property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

thrilled to fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 fly	mark
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 thrilled	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	to-infinitive						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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