Test 10 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…

Was the Simpleton a dunce, like his mum said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Simpleton dunce · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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	5 dunce	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simpleton	det
3	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dunce	compound
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dunce	det
5	dunce	dunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a Simpleton dunce					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	his mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Nah, he's just slow, though he did well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slow	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	conj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					slow property	tree rules
2	do	past	he					well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mum thought so, but he did the right things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 things	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Mum						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	he	the right things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 3

Mum thought so, but he was actually quite smart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smart	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 smart	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smart	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smart	cop
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 smart	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 smart	advmod
10	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Mum						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					actually, smart property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, mum was right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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