Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

Dead funny, how chuffed was the King?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 King	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 chuffed	advmod
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 funny	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 King	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 King	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle							tree rules
2	is a	past		the funny King					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

Chuffed enough to dance around the great hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Chuffed	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Chuffed	advcl
5	around	around	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle						enough property	tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive				the great hall			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around hall=Location

Option 2

Pleased enough to weep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pleased	please	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Pleased	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 weep	mark
4	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pleased	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	participle						enough property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	weep	to-infinitive							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Happy enough to sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Happy	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sing	mark
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Happy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chuffed enough to dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Chuffed	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Chuffed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle						enough property	tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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