Test 15 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

Did Nur Mahomed get lucky with a wedding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nur · What happens: do, get

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nur	flat
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lucky	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	Nur					lucky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, he was absolutely over the moon and dancing all round the town square

The tree, 14 words

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dancing	cc
10	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 moon	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	10 dancing	advmod
12	round	round	ADP	_	15 square	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 square	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 square	compound
15	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the moon		absolutely property	tree rules
2	dance	gerund	he not said here			the town square		all property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round square=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, he was miserable and wished he had never come to the governor's town

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 miserable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 miserable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	cop
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wished	cc
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 governor	det
14	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 town	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 governor	case
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		miserable property	tree rules
2	wish	past	he not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not come	past	he	the governor's town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yeah, he was pleased as punch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pleased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 punch	case
7	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					as punch; pleased property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was chuffed to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chuffed	aux:pass
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bits	case
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he				to bits	tree rules

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