Test 2 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts, part 1: a hungry…

Okay but why was Ferko so gutted about his eye, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Okay Ferko · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: Okay Ferko

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ferko	amod
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 why	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Okay	conj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ferko	cop
5	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gutted	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 gutted	advmod
7	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eye	nmod:poss
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gutted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	7 gutted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Okay Ferko					tree rules
2	gut	past	Okay Ferko					about Ferko's eye	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Cos it hurt, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 hurt	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hurt	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	it					mate vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Cos he had to give up his eye, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bruv	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	give up	to-infinitive	he not said here	his eye					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he lost it for a tiny scrap, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 scrap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scrap	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scrap	amod
8	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scrap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	it				for a tiny scrap and mate	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Cos he's ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 ugly	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ugly	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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