Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

so the crow was wicked sus, was he sorry at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow, wicked sus · What happens: be · To what, where: wicked sus, all

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 sus	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sus	amod
6	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorry	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sus	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sorry	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sorry	nsubj
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorry	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the crow	wicked sus					tree rules
2	is	past	wicked sus			all		sorry property	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

yes, he wept by the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he					by the stove	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yes, he was very sorry and said so loudly before he groaned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sorry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sorry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sorry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sorry	advmod
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sorry	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 loudly	advmod
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 groaned	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 groaned	nsubj
13	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	sorry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here	loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	groan	past	he		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

no, he cried and was sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorry	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	cop
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he not said here					sorry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, he groaned till he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 groaned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 groaned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 groaned	nsubj
4	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 died	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 groaned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groan	past	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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