Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Was the old king still around?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old king · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 around	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 around	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 around	advmod
6	around	around	ADV	_	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 around	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old king				still	around 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he'd gone off for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · perfect	he				year		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he's been ill for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ill	obl

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

Option 3

Nah, he was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he'd been dead for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	he				year	dead property	tree rules

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