Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a…

Did the dad just start shouting when the basket went dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: basket · What happens: do, start, shout, go · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 start	advmod
5	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 start	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 basket	det
9	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shouting	ccomp
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dad		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	start	present				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shout speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	the basket		dead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, he just sat down quietly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	he					quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he shouted.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct

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

Option 3

Yeah, he went mad, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he	mate				mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he went off his head, swearing and that, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swearing	punct
9	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 that	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	he	his head				mate obl	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	swear	gerund	he not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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