Test 2 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Bruv, why did Moti tie rocks to his ankles, was he proper mental?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moti · What happens: tie, be · To what, where: rocks

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tie	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tie	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	aux
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tie	nsubj
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 ankles	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ankles	nmod:poss
10	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mental	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mental	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mental	nsubj
14	proper	properly	ADV	_	15 mental	advmod
15	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tie	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · do-support	Moti	rocks				to Moti's ankles; Bruv vocative	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient to ankle=Co-Patient
2	is	past	Moti					mental, properly 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

So he wouldn't fall off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 fall	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fall	advmod
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall off	would	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

To look hard, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						hard property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 3

Cos he wanted to look proper tough when he rode in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tough	amod
7	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 rode	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	tough property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	ride	past	Cos		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

So he'd stay on the pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 pony	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pony	det
7	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	he					on the pony	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pony=Location

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