Test 2 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

Was the wife well chuffed when the mules came back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mules · What happens: chuff, come back · To what, where: wife

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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	5 chuffed	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chuffed	advmod
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mules	det
8	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chuffed	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		the wife				well property	tree rules
2	come back	past	the mules						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Nah, she was stressed out about the mules missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stressed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stressed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stressed	aux:pass
5	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stressed	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 mules	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mules	det
9	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stressed	obl
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stressed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress out	past · passive		she				about the mules	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was absolutely over the moon with joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 moon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moon	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moon	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 moon	cop
5	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	8 moon	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 joy	case
10	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the moon		with joy; absolutely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buzzing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	she						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, she was gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gutted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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