Test 4 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Was the snake king well chuffed to let him go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, chuff, let, go · To what, where: snake king, king

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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 king	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	nsubj:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chuffed	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the snake king		tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		the snake king	well property	tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive		king		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	king not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, he was actually dead scared, bruv, he wanted him gone asap

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scared	amod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wanted	xcomp
15	asap	ASAP	ADV	Abbr=Yes	14 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		actually, scared property	tree rules
2	want	past	he	him = he		tree rules
3	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here		asap property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was dead scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Nah, he was dead happy about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	amod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, he was dead chuffed and threw a massive party for him

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	8 threw	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 party	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 party	amod
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	throw	past		a massive party				for him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

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