Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a p…

Was Felicia gutted when Bruno chucked her the eggshell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruno · What happens: gut, chuck · To what, where: Felicia, eggshell

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1448 «Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a poor girl is cheated of her pinks and is rewarded by a Queen with a golden pitcher» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
2	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	nsubj:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chucked	advmod
5	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	nsubj
6	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chucked	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggshell	det
9	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		Felicia					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	chuck	past	Bruno	the eggshell	Felicia				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination eggshell=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, she laughed it off a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 laughed	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	she	it				a bit obl:unmarked	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she cried more than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 cried	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 cried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	more			ever		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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