Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

Did the old King come back looking like a grandad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old King · What happens: come back, look

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 come	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 grandad	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grandad	det
10	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support	the old King						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the old King not said here					like a grandad	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Nah, he was young again, like twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 twenty	case
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 young	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				again	like twenty; young property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he looked like a grandad still, but with a bit more energy about him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 grandad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grandad	det
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	still	still	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 energy	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 energy	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	obl
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 energy	amod
15	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	parataxis
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 energy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he				still	like a grandad	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, grey and old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 old	cc
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, he was young again, like twenty, with a full head of hair and no wrinkles

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 twenty	case
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 young	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 head	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 head	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 head	det
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 head	amod
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 hair	case
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wrinkles	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 wrinkles	det
19	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 head	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				again	like twenty; young property	tree rules

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