Test 1 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Bruv, why was the King called Peridor the Sorrowful, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: be, call, innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 called	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sorrowful	det
10	Sorrowful	Sorrowful	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		why property	tree rules
2	call	past	the King	Bruv vocative	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive	the King not said here		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

He was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was dead gutted about his wife and he never got over it for years and years

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gutted	amod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 years	cc
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		He				about his wife	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	not get	past	he			it	year		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was proper gutted about his wife for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gutted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		He			year	about his wife; properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4

He was always moody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moody	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moody	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 moody	advmod
4	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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