Test 4 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

So the town was skint and proper gutted, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town · What happens: be, gut

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 skint	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skint	cop
5	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gutted	cc
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gutted	amod
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 skint	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 skint	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 skint	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the town					skint property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	the town not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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, they were well skint and gutted and the Counsellor was loaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skint	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gutted	cc
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 skint	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 loaded	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Counsellor	det
11	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 loaded	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loaded	aux:pass
13	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 skint	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		skint, well property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	they not said here			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	load	past · passive		the Counsellor		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were well skint and gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skint	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gutted	cc
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 skint	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					skint, well property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	they not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they were quite happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, they were well loaded after the rats had gone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loaded	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loaded	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 loaded	advmod
6	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rats	det
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 loaded	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	past · passive		they				well property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	the rats					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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