Test 3 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

Bruv, what's the lion's deal, like, is he dead keen on snacks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dead keen, deal · What happens: be · To what, where: deal, dead keen, snacks

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deal	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lion	case
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keen	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 deal	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 keen	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keen	nsubj
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keen	amod
15	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 snacks	case
17	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keen	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 keen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dead keen	the lion's deal				Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	is a	present	the lion's deal	dead keen		snacks			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

He's after some sweet honey cakes, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cakes	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cakes	cop
3	after	after	ADP	_	7 cakes	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cakes	det
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cakes	amod
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cakes	compound
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He				after some sweet honey cakes and innit		tree rules

Option 2

He's just a bit peckish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 peckish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 peckish	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 peckish	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peckish	obl:unmarked
6	peckish	peckish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					a bit obl:unmarked; peckish property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he's stuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuffed	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stuffed	aux:pass
5	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	present · passive		he					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's dead hungry, past his supper time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hungry	amod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
6	past	past	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					hungry property	tree rules

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