Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

Did Burchard look legit sick after the shift thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Burchard · What happens: look

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
2	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sick	amod
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	Burchard				after the shift thing	sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

yeah, he had a high fever and lay in bed for days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fever	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fever	amod
7	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a high fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
2	lay	infinitive	he not said here			bed	day		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he had a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fever	det
6	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient

Option 3

no, he was just tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

no, fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	fine	fine	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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