Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…

Was the youngest princess gutted when the basket went down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: basket · What happens: be, gut, go down · To what, where: youngest princess

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 princess	amod
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	csubj
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 went	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 basket	det
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youngest princess		tree rules
2	gut	participle	the basket not said here			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	the basket		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

She was wrecked, she cried and was dead upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrecked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrecked	aux:pass
3	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cried	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wrecked	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dead	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	conj
10	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive		She		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	she		upset property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	she not said here		dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Nope, she cheered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	she						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

She was upset and cried a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upset	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	cop
3	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					upset property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	She not said here	a bit					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was fine, she laughed and waved goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughed	nsubj
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waved	cc
8	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
9	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		fine property	tree rules
2	laugh	past	she			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wave	past	she not said here	goodbye		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodbye=Patient

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