Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…

Was the king a proper posh geezer or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: king

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 geezer	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 geezer	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 geezer	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king					tree rules

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

Yeah, but he were dead rude to folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rude	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rude	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rude	amod
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 folk	case
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rude	obl

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

Option 2

Yeah, he were rich and fancy, but he were dead rubbish at manners and never said please

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fancy	cc
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rich	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rubbish	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rubbish	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbish	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rubbish	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rubbish	amod
13	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rich	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 manners	case
15	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 rubbish	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	conj
19	please	please	INTJ	_	5 rich	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			rich property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here				tree rules
3	is a	past	he	dead rubbish	manners		tree rules
4	not say speech: assert	past	he not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he were just an ordinary bloke with a horse, but he were dead rubbish at manners

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bloke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bloke	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bloke	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 bloke	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bloke	det
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bloke	amod
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bloke	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rubbish	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 rubbish	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rubbish	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rubbish	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rubbish	amod
17	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bloke	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 manners	case
19	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 rubbish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a ordinary bloke but dead rubbish				with a horse	tree rules
2	is a	past	horse	dead rubbish		manners			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but he were dead rubbish at manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 rubbish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rubbish	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rubbish	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rubbish	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbish	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rubbish	amod
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 manners	case
9	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 rubbish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead rubbish		manners			tree rules

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