Test 1 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…

Bruv, the King was dead gutted when his Queen died, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: be, gut, die

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1864 «The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King marries a sorrowful lady, and her ugly daughter starts trouble» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dead	acl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Queen	nmod:poss
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gutted	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King	Bruv vocative; dead property	tree rules
2	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	King's Queen		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Yeah, he was absolutely gutted and crying all the time, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crying	cc
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gutted	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		he				absolutely property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	cry speech: express	gerund					time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he was dead chuffed, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	amod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was proper gutted, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		he				properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was dead happy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	amod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happy	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mate vocative; happy property	tree rules

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