Test 7 · ★ · pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals t…

Did Fet-Fruners just get yelled at, or was his head actually on the line?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: yell, be · To what, where: Fet Fruners, head

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» 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	4 Fruners	aux
2	Fet	Fet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fruners	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fet	punct
4	Fruners	Fruner	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 yelled	nsubj:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 yelled	advmod
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 yelled	aux:pass
7	yelled	yell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	7 yelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 head	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 head	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 head	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yelled	parataxis
14	actually	actually	ADV	_	17 line	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 line	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 line	det
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 yelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present · passive		Fet Fruners					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	past		his head and the line					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

He was yelled at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 yelled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 yelled	aux:pass
3	yelled	yell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	3 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · passive		He					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His head was on the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 line	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 line	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 line	det
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His head			the line			tree rules

Option 3

He was fired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fired	aux:pass
3	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past · passive		He					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

He lost his job at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 job	nmod:poss
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 court	case
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his job		court			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		his = he						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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