Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her bro…

was the King salty when the wicked mum took the babies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wicked mum · What happens: be, take · To what, where: King salty, babies

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1679 «Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers but is condemned to burn» 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	4 salty	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salty	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 salty	compound
4	salty	salty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	csubj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 took	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mum	det
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mum	amod
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 babies	det
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the King salty					tree rules
2	take	past	the wicked mum	the babies					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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 got super angry at her, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

nah, he was chill about it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	cop
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; mate vocative; chill property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he was dead mad and sent men to chase the wicked mum out of the castle

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mad	amod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 men	cc
8	sent	sent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mad	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chase	mark
11	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mad	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mum	det
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mum	amod
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chase	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 castle	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad property	tree rules
2	chase	to-infinitive	he not said here	the wicked mum		the castle			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mum=Theme out castle=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he didn't believe her at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 believe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 believe	advmod
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 believe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	past · do-support	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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