Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begin…

is the Grasshopper the funniest character or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Grasshopper

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1558 «Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begins: the Cricket and the Grasshopper reach the Golden Branch and are freed, and a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Grasshopper	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grasshopper	det
3	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 character	det
5	funniest	funny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 character	amod
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Grasshopper	appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 character	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Grasshopper					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, the Cricket is funnier tbh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 funnier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cricket	det
4	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 funnier	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funnier	cop
6	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	6 funnier	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Cricket					funny, tbh property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she's sassy and roasts the Cricket every single time he talks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sassy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sassy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sassy	cop
5	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roasts	cc
7	roasts	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sassy	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cricket	det
9	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roasts	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roasts	obl:unmarked
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talks	nsubj
14	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she			sassy property	tree rules
2	roast	present	she not said here	the Cricket	time		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cricket=Patient
3	talk	present	he	every single time not said here			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent time=Patient

Option 3

nah, the Mice are way funnier honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mice	det
4	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 funnier	obl:unmarked
7	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 funnier	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Mice	way					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she's sassy and roasts the Cricket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sassy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sassy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sassy	cop
5	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roasts	cc
7	roasts	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sassy	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cricket	det
9	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roasts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					sassy property	tree rules
2	roast	present	she not said here	the Cricket					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cricket=Patient

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