Test 12 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

Wait, the brothers are proper jealous of Ferko, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: wait, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1692 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry youth is robbed of his bread and maimed by his brothers» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 jealous	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jealous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 jealous	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jealous	amod
7	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ferko	case
9	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 jealous	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the brothers					of Ferko; jealous 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

Nah, they're not jealous, they just think he's a bit odd and rude to them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jealous	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 think	advmod
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 odd	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 odd	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 odd	obl:unmarked
15	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 think	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rude	cc
17	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 odd	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	they		jealous property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	they			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	he		a bit obl:unmarked; odd property	tree rules
4	be		he not said here	them = they		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, cos he's way too nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 way	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 nice	advmod
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cos way	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, cos he's way too handsome and gets all the best bread from the Queen

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 handsome	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 way	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handsome	nsubj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 handsome	advmod
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gets	cc
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 handsome	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bread	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bread	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 bread	amod
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gets	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 Queen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bread	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cos way	tree rules
2	get	present		all best bread				from the Queen	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from queen=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, cos he's way too handsome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 way	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 handsome	advmod
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cos way	tree rules

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