Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…

Was Rosette's dog just a normal dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dog

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» 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 dog	cop
2	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rosette	case
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	csubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 dog	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Rosette's dog					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

Nah, he could sing and fetch the ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sing	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sing	aux
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fetch	cc
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sing	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	fetch	infinitive	he not said here	the ball					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he could talk and count to ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 count	cc
7	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talk	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 ten	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	he						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	count	infinitive	he not said here					to ten	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he could dance and turn head over heels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dance	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dance	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dance	aux
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dance	conj
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 heels	case
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	could	he						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	infinitive	he not said here	head		heels			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over heel=Trajectory

Option 4

Yeah, very normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 normal	advmod
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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