Test 5 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

Mental, so the bear's a bit rude, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rude	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 rude	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rude	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rude	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rude	obl:unmarked
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mental	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mental	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Mental	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bear					a bit obl:unmarked; rude property	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

Nah, he's just a bit grumpy, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grumpy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grumpy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 grumpy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grumpy	obl:unmarked
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grumpy	punct
10	innit	innit	INTJ	_	8 grumpy	discourse

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

Option 2

Yeah, he's just a bit of a pest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 bit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pest	det
10	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a bit				of a pest	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he never got taught manners, so he just talks like that to everyone he meets

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 taught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	nsubj:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 taught	advmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	aux:pass
6	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 taught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talks	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 talks	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talks	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 talks	advmod
12	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 talks	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 talks	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meets	nsubj
18	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not teach speech: other	past · passive		he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient manners=Topic
2	talk	present	he		like that; to everyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to everyone=Co-Agent
3	meet	present	he			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he never got taught manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 taught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	nsubj:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 taught	advmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	aux:pass
6	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not teach speech: other	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient manners=Topic

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