Test 3 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

Was the sultan well chuffed with the gazelle, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: sultan

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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	3 sultan	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	nsubj:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chuffed	advmod
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 gazelle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gazelle	det
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuffed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chuffed	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sultan					tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		the sultan				with the gazelle; well 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

yeah, he was well made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		he				well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was dead chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle	he not said here						tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he was dead chuffed, proper happy, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happy	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 happy	amod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle	he not said here		tree rules
3	be		he not said here		tree rules

Option 4

yeah, he was dead chuffed and gave him loads of cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	amod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 cash	case
12	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	give	past		loads of cash	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient load=Theme

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