Test 8 · ★ · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…

Was the Witch-maiden a proper wrong'un, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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	5 maiden	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
3	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maiden	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Witch	punct
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wrong'un	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wrong'un	amod
8	wrong'un	wrong'un	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maiden	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 maiden	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 maiden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						a proper wrong'un obl:unmarked; maiden property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, mate, she was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was well upset, she'd been wronged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 upset	advmod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wronged	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wronged	nsubj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wronged	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wronged	aux:pass
11	wronged	wrong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 upset	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					upset, well property	tree rules
2	wrong	past · perfect · passive		she					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she was a proper nutter, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 nutter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nutter	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nutter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nutter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nutter	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nutter	amod
7	nutter	nutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nutter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a proper nutter and mate					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she was just a bit moody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 moody	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moody	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 moody	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 moody	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moody	obl:unmarked
8	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					a bit obl:unmarked; moody property	tree rules

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