Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Why did the Happy Island feel so chill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Happy Island, you · What happens: feel, chill

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Island	det
4	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Island	amod
5	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chill	advcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 chill	advmod
8	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the Happy Island						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	chill	imperative	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nobody was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nobody					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone was well fed and happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 fed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fed	advmod
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 happy	cc
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · passive		Everyone				well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody got hungry, thirsty, cold or hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 hot	cc
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Nobody					hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The food was always fresh and nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fresh	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fresh	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fresh	advmod
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nice	cc
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fresh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the food					always, fresh property	tree rules
2	be		the food not said here						tree rules

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