Test 4 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…

Did anyone manage to cheer him up at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone · What happens: manage, cheer up · To what, where: him, all

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 manage	aux
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 manage	nsubj
3	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cheer	mark
5	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 manage	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheer	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 cheer	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cheer	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 manage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past · do-support	anyone						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cheer up	to-infinitive	anyone not said here	him = he		all			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

Yeah, a few of them managed it, kind of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 few	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 few	nmod
7	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 few	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 managed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 few	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	dep

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past		it					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Nah, nobody did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	nobody						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, loads did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	loads						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, not one of them could get through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 get	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get through	could	one of them					through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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