Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Was Peronnik actually thick or just pure chancing it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, chance · To what, where: Peronnik, it

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	2 Peronnik	cop
2	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thick	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 thick	advmod
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 pure	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 pure	advmod
7	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj
8	chancing	chance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thick	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chancing	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peronnik					tree rules
2	chance	gerund		it					vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot

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

He was called an idiot but he was clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idiot	det
5	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 clever	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clever	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	cop
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		He					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past	he					clever property	tree rules

Option 2

He pretended to be simple but he was sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 simple	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 simple	cop
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sharp	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sharp	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sharp	cop
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	He not said here	simple property	tree rules
3	is	past	he	sharp property	tree rules

Option 3

He was actually a complete fool who only got lucky by accident in the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fool	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fool	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
5	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fool	amod
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 got	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	acl:relcl
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 accident	case
12	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a complete fool				actually property	tree rules
2	get	past	a complete fool	lucky			in the end	by accident	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus

Option 4

Thick as a brick, but he got lucky every time he tried anything at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 brick	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 brick	det
4	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thick	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Thick	conj
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl:unmarked
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 tried	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	lucky			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus
2	try	past	he	anything		all			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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