Test 1 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

yo so why was stan's missus being all cagey about the luck thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: be · To what, where: missus

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 missus	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 why	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 yo	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 missus	cop
5	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 missus	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 stan	case
7	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cagey	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 cagey	advmod
10	cagey	cagey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 missus	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 thing	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	compound
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cagey	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 missus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	yo	stan's missus					tree rules
2	is	gerund	yo not said here					about the luck thing; all, cagey 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

cos she didn't wanna upset him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 upset	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 upset	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 upset	dep
6	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not upset	past · do-support	she	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause it'd make him miserable like her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 miserable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	make	would	it	him = he				miserable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

Option 3

cause she thought he'd only get cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	present	she					think property	tree rules
2	get	would	he	cross					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus

Option 4

she reckoned he'd get sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	would	he					sad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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