Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Was the merchant well chuffed about all that mad travelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: merchant

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	3 merchant	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	nsubj:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chuffed	advmod
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 travelling	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 travelling	det:predet
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 travelling	det
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 travelling	amod
10	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the merchant					tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		the merchant				about all mad travelling; well 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was dead stressed and wanted out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stressed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
6	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stressed	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 wanted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	past · passive		he					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	want out	participle							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Nah, he was chuffed and wanted to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chuffed	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive	he	tree rules
2	want	past		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was buzzing and wanted more

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	conj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	he not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Nah, he was dead stressed and wanted out of the whole mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stressed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
6	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	13 mess	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 mess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mess	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mess	amod
13	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	past · passive		he					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	want out	past		the whole mess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mess=Theme

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