Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

Bruh, the brothers' dogs were tiny and fragile, shook, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: be, innit

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dogs	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 brothers	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tiny	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tiny	cop
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fragile	cc
10	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tiny	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shook	punct
12	shook	shook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tiny	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tiny	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers's dogs	tiny property	tree rules
2	be		the brothers's dogs not said here		tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	the brothers's dogs not said here		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, they were big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 big	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and the Prince's dog was a muddy turnspit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 turnspit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turnspit	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turnspit	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prince	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turnspit	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turnspit	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 turnspit	det
10	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turnspit	amod
11	turnspit	turnspit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Prince's dog	a muddy turnspit					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, all muddy, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 muddy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 muddy	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 muddy	det
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muddy	vocative

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

Option 4

Nah, the brothers' dogs were big and strong, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dogs	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 brothers	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 big	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strong	cc
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers's dogs					mate vocative; big property	tree rules
2	be		the brothers's dogs not said here						tree rules

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