Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princ…

and they both laugh at each other's conks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: laugh · To what, where: conks

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1417 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, part 4: the Prince meets the old Fairy in a cave and she talks on about noses» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 conks	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 other	case
9	conks	conk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	they	each other's conks					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conk=Theme

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

nah, they fall out over tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 tea	case
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	they			tea		out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over tea=Location

Option 2

yeah, they both say it's dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they					both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, they both just cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cry	nsubj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cry	det
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, cos both their hooters are mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cos	punct
3	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hooters	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hooters	nmod:poss
6	hooters	hooter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mad	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mad	cop
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	co	present							tree rules
2	is	present	their hooters					mad property	tree rules

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