Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

What did the people reckon about the wedding plans?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 plans	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plans	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plans	compound
9	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the people					about the wedding plans	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

They were chuffed to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bits	case
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		They				to bits	tree rules

Option 2

They were chuffed to bits, and they all cheered and threw flowers at the Prince and his bride

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bits	case
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuffed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cheered	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cheered	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cheered	advmod
10	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cheered	conj
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 threw	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Prince	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bride	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bride	nmod:poss
19	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuffed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		They	to bits	tree rules
2	cheer	past	bits = bit			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	throw	past	bits = bit not said here	flowers	at the Prince	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at prince=Destination

Option 3

They were very worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worried	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 worried	advmod
4	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They were chuffed to bits and sent word to the King at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bits	case
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuffed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chuffed	conj
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		They				to bits	tree rules
2	send	participle		word	the King				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to king=Destination

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