Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks: Char…

why is whittington so hyped about london

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, hype · To what, where: whittington

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1461 «Fairy Tales, Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks: Charming fetches the water, is jailed, and becomes king» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 whittington	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 whittington	cop
3	whittington	whittington	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hyped	obl
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hyped	advmod
5	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 london	case
7	london	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hyped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		whittington					tree rules
2	hype	past						about london	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

cuz he's delusional

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delusional	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 delusional	cop
4	delusional	delusional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	cuz not said here				delusional property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he heard london was rich, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	london	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rich	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	lowkey					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	london					rich property	tree rules

Option 3

he heard rumours and got way too excited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 excited	advmod
8	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	rumours					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumour=Stimulus
2	get	past	he not said here	way				excited property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he thought the streets were gold, delusional lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 streets	det
4	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gold	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gold	cop
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 delusional	punct
8	delusional	delusional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 thought	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the streets	gold					tree rules

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