Test 6 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

was the wolverine gutted he missed the bear's dinner?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolverine · What happens: be, gut, miss · To what, where: wolverine, dinner

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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 wolverine	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolverine	det
3	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missed	nsubj
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dinner	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bear	case
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the wolverine	tree rules
2	gut	past	the wolverine		tree rules
3	miss	past	wolverine	the bear's dinner	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus

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

yeah, he was well annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, not bothered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bothered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bothered	advmod
4	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, he was so cross he stomped off home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 stomped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stomped	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stomped	nsubj
8	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 stomped	compound:prt
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stomped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	cross					tree rules
2	stomp off	past	he	home					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

Option 4

no, he was glad because the bear was too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 glad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 slow	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slow	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slow	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 slow	advmod
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glad	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					glad property	tree rules
2	is	past	the bear					slow property	tree rules

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