Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

Was he scared of nodding off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, nod off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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 scared	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 nodding	mark
5	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 scared	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 nodding	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	nod off	gerund	he not said here						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, he was dead chill about it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Nah, he wasn't bothered at all, he reckoned he'd stay awake the whole way.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bothered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bothered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bothered	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bothered	advmod
6	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bothered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reckoned	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reckoned	nsubj
11	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bothered	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stay	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stay	aux
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 reckoned	ccomp
15	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stay	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stay	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bothered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bother	past · passive		he	all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	reckon	past	he				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stay	would	he	the whole way		awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he was dead worried about it, cos he didn't want to miss them.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 worried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 worried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worried	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worried	amod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 want	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 want	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 want	advmod
14	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 worried	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 miss	mark
16	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 miss	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		about it; worried property	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	miss not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was dead worried about it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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