Test 4 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

lowkey sus, why did the king skip coming on day three?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king skip · What happens: come

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coming	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 coming	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skip	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skip	compound
8	skip	skip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	nsubj
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sus	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	flat
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	the king skip				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

he thought she was just messing around

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 messing	advmod
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 messing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mess around	past · progressive	she					around property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he thought she was just messing around with the Queens and the nurse

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 messing	advmod
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 messing	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 Queens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queens	det
10	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 messing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nurse	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Queens	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mess around	past · progressive	she					with the Queens and the nurse; around property	tree rules

Option 3

he thought she was faking it for fun

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 faking	aux
5	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fake	past · progressive	she	it				for fun	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

he was mad that she had been messing around with the cowherd all week long

The tree, 15 words

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 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 messing	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 messing	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 messing	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 messing	aux
8	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mad	advcl
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 messing	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 cowherd	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cowherd	det
12	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 messing	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 messing	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 messing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad property	tree rules
2	mess around	past · perfect · progressive	she				week	with the cowherd; around, long property	tree rules

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