Test 6 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Lowkey, was the widow actually strict?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: widow

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 widow	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 widow	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 strict	advmod
7	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 widow	amod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 widow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the widow					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

Yeah, she was a bit mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	obl:unmarked
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					a bit obl:unmarked; mean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was dead thrifty and hard-working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 thrifty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thrifty	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thrifty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thrifty	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thrifty	amod
6	thrifty	thrifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 working	cc
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 working	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hard	punct
10	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 thrifty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					thrifty property	tree rules
2	work	gerund	she not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she was dead soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 soft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soft	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soft	amod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					soft property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she was dead lazy and rude to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	aux
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	amod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rude	cc
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lazy	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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