Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

The Prince stopped up his ears, but did the music still get in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: stop up, do, get in · To what, where: ears, music

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stopped	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stopped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 get	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 music	det
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	still	still	ADV	_	9 did	advmod
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stop up	past	the Prince	Prince's ears		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Destination
2	do	past		the music	still	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Eventuality
3	get in	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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, not a single note got through, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 note	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 note	amod
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get through	past	a single note					mate vocative; through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he could hear nothing of it at all, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hear	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nothing	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	he	nothing		all		bruv obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, it made him cry and shout loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shout	cc
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cry	conj
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shout	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shout speech: express	infinitive	him = he not said here		loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it still made him laugh his head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 laugh	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he			still		tree rules
2	laugh off	infinitive	him = he not said here	his head					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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