Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned yout…

Was the young man dead gutted when he got arrested?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, arrest · To what, where: young man, man

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1280 «Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son» 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	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	csubj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 arrested	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 arrested	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrested	aux:pass
10	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gutted	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the young man	tree rules
2	gut	participle		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	arrest	past · passive	man	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 looked dead calm and pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pleased	cc
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					calm, dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he looked proper pale and desperate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 desperate	cc
8	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					pale, proper property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, he looked proper pale and desperate and he kept mumbling to himself about the old lady and his grandad

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 desperate	cc
8	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pale	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
12	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 mumbling	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 lady	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mumbling	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grandad	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grandad	nmod:poss
21	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	he		pale, proper property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	keep	past	he			tree rules
3	mumble speech: other	gerund	he not said here	himself = he	about the old lady and his grandad	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he was a bit rattled

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bit	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bit					tree rules
2	rattle	participle		a bit not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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