Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils…

Did the dad ever get over that yellow wife thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, get · To what, where: dad, yellow wife thing

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1563 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils the gate, pleases the helpers, and reaches a thirsty sandy plain» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dad	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	10 thing	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	nsubj
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dad					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the dad not said here			yellow wife thing	ever		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over thing=Destination

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

Nope, he kept on sulking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 sulking	mark
6	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	gerund	he not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not yet, he was still laughing when Désiré rode off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 laughing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughing	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 laughing	advmod
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rode	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 rode	advmod
9	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	he				yet; still		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride off	past	Désiré						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Not really, he still sulks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 sulks	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sulks	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sulks	advmod
6	sulks	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	present	he				still		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nope, he's still mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he				still	mad property	tree rules

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