Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…

Did the lad even listen to the warning, or was he a mug?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad, he · What happens: do, listen, be · To what, where: lad, mug

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1839 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes back to life, and the wicked witch is punished» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lad	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 warning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 warning	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mug	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 mug	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mug	cop
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mug	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mug	det
14	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lad		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	listen	infinitive	the lad not said here		to the warning	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to warning=Theme
3	is a	past	he	a mug		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 ran away fast

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	He					away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He ignored it and got done, total muppet move

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 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ignored	conj
6	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 move	amod
9	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 move	compound
10	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ignored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	He	it				total muppet move obl	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	past	He not said here					done property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He listened, nice one

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 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	He	nice one					tree rules

Option 4

He tried to listen but got distracted, mate

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 distracted	cc
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distracted	aux:pass
7	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 listen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	try	past	He	mate vocative	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	distract	past · passive	He not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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