Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

Why was Désiré all hot and bothered riding in?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Désiré · What happens: be, bother

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hot	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
3	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 riding	cc
7	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 riding	amod
8	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 riding	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Désiré					all, hot property	tree rules
2	bother	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

the ugly bride looked worse in rich clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 looked	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 clothes	case
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothes	amod
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the ugly bride					in rich clothes; bad property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clothes=Theme

Option 2

the rich coat was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coat	amod
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rich coat					heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the ugly bride looked even uglier once she was dressed in silks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 uglier	advmod
6	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 looked	xcomp
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 dressed	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dressed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dressed	aux:pass
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 silks	case
12	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the ugly bride					ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	dress	past · passive		bride		silks			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

his horse had galloped so far that he was sweating from the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 galloped	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 galloped	aux
4	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 galloped	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 sweating	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sweating	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sweating	aux
10	sweating	sweat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 galloped	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sweating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	past · perfect · passive		his horse				far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
2	sweat	past · progressive	horse			the road			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from road=Source

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