Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess…

Mate, the hall had cats hanging off the ceiling, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hall, cats · What happens: have, hang off, innit · To what, where: cats, ceiling

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1557 «Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess is turned into a grasshopper, and the Prince refuses the Fairy's offer» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cats	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 ceiling	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ceiling	det
10	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hall	cats	Mate vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	hang off	gerund	cats not said here	the ceiling		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceiling=Patient
3	innit	infinitive	the hall not said here			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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, twelve of them, yelling their heads off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twelve	punct
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twelve	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yelling	punct
7	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 twelve	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 yelling	obj
10	off	off	ADV	_	7 yelling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell off speech: express	gerund		their heads				off property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, twelve of them, hanging from the beams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twelve	punct
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twelve	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hanging	punct
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 twelve	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 beams	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beams	det
10	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund				the beams			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, there were six snakes on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 snakes	nummod
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	six snakes			the floor; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

Option 4

Yeah, twelve of them, yelling their heads off and clawing at the walls of the hall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twelve	punct
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twelve	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yelling	punct
7	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 twelve	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 yelling	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 yelling	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clawing	cc
12	clawing	claw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 yelling	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clawing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell off speech: express	gerund		their heads					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	claw	gerund						at the walls of the hall	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient

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