Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

Was the rich man happy, or was he moaning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich man, man · What happens: be, moan

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moaning	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 moaning	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 moaning	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 moaning	nsubj
10	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happy	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rich man					happy property	tree rules
2	moan	past · progressive	man						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he was sulking, all day

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 sulking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulking	aux
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sulking	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sulking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past · progressive	he				day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

he was moaning, always, about everything and everyone around him

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 moaning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moaning	aux
3	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 always	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 moaning	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 everything	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 moaning	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 everyone	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 everything	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past · progressive	he					about everything; always property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he was dead happy, always laughing and dancing about

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	_	9 laughing	punct
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 laughing	advmod
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 happy	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dancing	cc
11	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 laughing	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 dancing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	happy property	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	he not said here	always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dance	gerund	he not said here	about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was moaning, always

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 moaning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moaning	aux
3	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 always	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 moaning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past · progressive	he					always property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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