Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house i…

Uncle Henry never laughed, right? like at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: not laugh

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» 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	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 laughed	advmod
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 all	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 laughed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past	Uncle					like all	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 was always kinda grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grumpy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grumpy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grumpy	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 grumpy	advmod
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 grumpy	advmod
7	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, dude was always so serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 serious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 serious	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 serious	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 serious	advmod
7	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, he laughed a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he	a lot					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, he laughed, like, every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he				day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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