Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Was the Sheep King a hype bloke or a grumpy one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Sheep King

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	4 King	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	hype	hype	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bloke	compound
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 King	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bloke	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 King	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Sheep King					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 · ← Mova's choice

Hyped, proper lively yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyped	hype	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lively	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lively	amod
4	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hyped	conj
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Hyped	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grumpy, grave as a judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grave	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grumpy	punct
3	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 judge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 judge	det
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grave	obl

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

Option 3

Grumpy, grave as a judge, never smiled once and rarely spoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smiled	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grave	punct
3	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grumpy	conj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 judge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 judge	det
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smiled	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 smiled	advmod
9	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 smiled	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spoke	cc
12	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	13 spoke	advmod
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smiled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smile	past						once property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past						rarely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Grumpy, moody and not fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moody	punct
3	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grumpy	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fun	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fun	advmod
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grumpy	conj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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