Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…

Bruv, did the turkeys just swarm him or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, swarm · To what, where: turkeys, Bruv

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 turkeys	det
5	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 swarm	advmod
7	swarm	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swarm	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 swarm	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv	the turkeys					tree rules
2	swarm	present	Bruv not said here	Bruv					vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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

Yeah, the whole yard went wild and the turkeys ran at him from all corners

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yard	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yard	amod
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 turkeys	det
10	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 corners	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 corners	det
16	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the whole yard					wild property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the turkeys			all corners		at yard	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, they were up for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 were	nsubj
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 were	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 were	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	past	they					for it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they all went proper mad and started pecking him from every side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 started	cc
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 started	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pecking	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 side	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pecking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	they not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	peck	gerund	they not said here	him = he	every side		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they went proper mad at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					at him = he; mad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at he=Location

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