Test 14 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Was the dad sad his wife died, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, wife · What happens: be, die

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	4 sad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 died	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 died	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad					sad property	tree rules
2	die	past	his wife						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

yeah, he cried hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 cried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he					hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he fainted dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fainted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fainted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fainted	nsubj
4	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fainted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	he					dead property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was rejoicing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rejoicing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rejoicing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rejoicing	aux
5	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · progressive	he						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

nah, he was really angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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