Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet…

Did the guests bang on about the diamonds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guests · What happens: bang on

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1798 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet bursts open and the wedding ends happily» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guests	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bang	nsubj
4	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 bang	compound:prt
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 diamonds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 diamonds	det
8	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bang	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bang on	present	the guests					about the diamonds	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about diamond=Location

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, they were way more gobsmacked by the bride than by any diamonds at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 gobsmacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gobsmacked	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gobsmacked	aux
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gobsmacked	compound
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 gobsmacked	advmod
7	gobsmacked	gobsmack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gobsmacked	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 diamonds	case
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 diamonds	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 diamonds	det
14	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gobsmacked	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 diamonds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobsmack	past · passive	they					by the bride; than any diamonds at all	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, they talked about them all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	they				night	about them = they	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic

Option 3

Nah, the bride totally stole it, the diamonds barely got a look-in at the do

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bride	det
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stole	nsubj
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 stole	advmod
6	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stole	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 diamonds	det
10	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
11	barely	barely	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stole	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 look	det
14	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 in	nsubj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 in	punct
16	in	in	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 do	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 do	det
19	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the bride	it				totally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	get	past	the diamonds			the do		barely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were more gobsmacked by the bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gobsmacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gobsmacked	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gobsmacked	aux:pass
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 gobsmacked	nsubj:pass
6	gobsmacked	gobsmack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 bride	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gobsmacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobsmack	past · passive	the bride	they					tree rules

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