Test 6 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

Gutted, so the boy's tail is, like, tiny now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tail · What happens: gut, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tiny	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	12 tiny	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tiny	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tiny	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tiny	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 tiny	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gutted	conj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tiny	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the boy's tail				now	tiny 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

Nah, it's still a proper long tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tail	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	9 tail	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tail	amod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tail	amod
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a proper long tail			still		tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it's huge, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 huge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 huge	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 huge	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					mate vocative; huge property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it's a bit of a stubby one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it's hardly worth calling a tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 worth	advmod
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 worth	csubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					hardly, worth property	tree rules
2	call	gerund		a tail					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient

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