Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Bro, how'd the poor couple feel about yet another baby?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor couple · What happens: feel

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feel	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 couple	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couple	amod
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 baby	case
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 baby	advmod
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the poor couple					about another baby	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about baby=Location

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 dad was really annoyed and grumbled about feeding yet another hungry mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 annoyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 annoyed	advmod
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grumbled	cc
7	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	conj
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 feeding	mark
9	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 grumbled	advcl
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 feeding	advmod
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 mouth	det
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mouth	amod
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad			annoyed property	tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past	the dad not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	gerund	the dad not said here	another hungry mouth	yet		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The dad was not overpleased at all, he grumbled and complained about the baby

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overpleased	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overpleased	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 overpleased	advmod
5	overpleased	overpleas	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 overpleased	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grumbled	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grumbled	nsubj
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overpleased	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 complained	cc
12	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grumbled	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 baby	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not overpleas	past · passive		the dad	all		tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past	he				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	complain speech: other	past	he not said here			about the baby	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dad was not overpleased, he grumbled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overpleased	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overpleased	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 overpleased	advmod
5	overpleased	overpleas	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grumbled	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 overpleased	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grumbled	nsubj
8	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not overpleas	past · passive		the dad					tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past	he						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The dad was thrilled and cheered loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrilled	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thrilled	cop
4	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheered	cc
6	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thrilled	conj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 cheered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad					thrilled property	tree rules
2	cheer	participle	the dad not said here					loudly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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