Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

Why did Peronnik keep his eyes on the colt's ears, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: keep, innit · To what, where: eyes, ears

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 ears	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colt	det
9	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ears	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 colt	case
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Peronnik	Peronnik's eyes		the colt's ears			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on ear=Location
2	innit	infinitive	Peronnik not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

To hear the colt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hear	mark
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colt	det
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	to-infinitive		the colt					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer colt=Stimulus

Option 2

So he wouldn't look at the ford

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 ford	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ford	det
8	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	would	he					at the ford	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ford=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So he wouldn't look at the dancers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 dancers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dancers	det
8	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	would	he					at the dancers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dancer=Theme

Option 4

So he could watch the lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 watch	aux
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	could	he	the lady					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

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