Test 6 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

What was the duke like to work for, gutted or chuffed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, work, gut, chuff · To what, where: duke

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 duke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 duke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duke	det
4	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 work	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 duke	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 work	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gutted	punct
10	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duke	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 chuffed	cc
12	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gutted	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 duke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the duke	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gut	participle		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chuff	participle		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

Chuffed to bits, he got fifty ducats a year and a proper coat too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 got	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 bits	case
3	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chuffed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chuffed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ducats	nummod
8	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducats	nmod:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coat	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coat	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coat	amod
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducats	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	6 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	he not said here					to bits	tree rules
2	get	past	he	fifty ducats a year and a proper coat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ducat=Stimulus

Option 2

Chuffed, paid twenty ducats a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 paid	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ducats	nummod
5	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle							tree rules
2	pay	participle		twenty ducats			year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chuffed, he got fifty ducats a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ducats	nummod
6	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	he not said here						tree rules
2	get	past	he	fifty ducats			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ducat=Stimulus

Option 4

Chuffed, loads of cash, he got fifty ducats a year plus new clothes

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loads	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chuffed	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cash	case
5	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ducats	nummod
10	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ducats	nmod:unmarked
13	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	15 clothes	cc
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clothes	amod
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 ducats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle							tree rules
2	get	past	Chuffed loads of cash	fifty ducats a year plus new clothes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ducat=Stimulus

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