Test 8 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Kisika's a proper kid, innit, playing in the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kisika, proper kid · What happens: be, play · To what, where: proper kid, sea

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kid	amod
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 kid	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 playing	punct
9	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kid	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kisika	a proper kid					tree rules
2	play	gerund	a proper kid not said here			the sea			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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, she was mean to Elsa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Elsa	case
7	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obl

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

Option 2

nah, she was a lovely woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a lovely woman					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she loved games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she	games					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, she read all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	she				day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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