Test 7 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

Did the King keep his cool when the sun went blood red?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, sun · What happens: keep, go · To what, where: cool, blood

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 King	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cool	nmod:poss
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	parataxis
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the King	King's cool					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cool=Theme
2	go	past	the sun	blood				red property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=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

Yeah, he got dead scared, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scared	amod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					mate vocative; scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he kept fighting on, bare brave, right through the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 fighting	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
11	right	right	ADV	_	14 night	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he				night	brave property	tree rules
2	fight on	gerund	he not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he stayed really brave, bare brave, even when it went red

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brave	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brave	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 went	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					brave property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	it					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he stayed brave, bare brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj
8	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					brave property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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