Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a…

Bro, did the basket really spew fish all over the road like a total flood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do · To what, where: basket, road

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1214 «Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a magic cock, and the innkeepers plot to steal it» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 basket	det
5	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 spew	advmod
7	spew	spew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	compound
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 road	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 flood	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 flood	det
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flood	amod
16	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 road	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the basket		the road like a total flood			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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was mental.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, rolls and fishes everywhere, mate, it was proper mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rolls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fishes	cc
5	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rolls	conj
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fishes	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fishes	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mental	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mental	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mental	cop
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 mental	advmod
13	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rolls	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	roll	present			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fish	present		mate vocative; everywhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	mate	mental, properly property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, rolls and fish everywhere, mate, proper wild.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rolls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 everywhere	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fish	cc
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolls	conj
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wild	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everywhere	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wild	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wild	amod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wild	punct

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

Option 4

Yeah, fish all over the road, bro, it was mad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fish	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 road	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 road	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mad	cop
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fish	punct

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

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