Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

Wait, the gardener's son's horse was knackered, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, knacker · To what, where: horse

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knackered	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 gardener	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 son	case
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knackered	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knackered	aux:pass
10	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knackered	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knacker	past · passive		the gardener's son's horse					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

Nah, it was young and fast and well fed, innit, nothing wrong with it

The tree, 14 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fast	cc
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 young	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fed	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fed	advmod
10	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 young	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 young	parataxis
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nothing	amod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	young property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	feed	participle		well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was old and lame, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lame	cc
7	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					old property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, it was old and lame, and it could barely walk, innit

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lame	cc
7	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walk	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 walk	aux
12	barely	barely	ADV	_	13 walk	advmod
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	old property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	walk	could	it	barely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	innit	infinitive			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was young and fast, innit

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fast	cc
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 young	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 young	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					young property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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