Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

Why were the fairies well gutted about the name, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: fairies

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gutted	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 name	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 name	det
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		the fairies				about the name; well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

They wanted the name for themselves

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	the name				for themselves = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme

Option 2

They thought the name was an insult

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 insult	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 insult	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 insult	det
7	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the name	a insult					tree rules

Option 3

It was presumptuous and they got jealous, so they planned revenge at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 presumptuous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presumptuous	cop
3	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presumptuous	conj
7	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 planned	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 planned	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 planned	nsubj
11	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presumptuous	parataxis
12	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 planned	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 planned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		presumptuous property	tree rules
2	get	past	they		jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	plan	past	they	revenge		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was presumptuous and they got jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 presumptuous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presumptuous	cop
3	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presumptuous	conj
7	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					presumptuous property	tree rules
2	get	past	they					jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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