Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

Why'd the whole town chase him to the palace?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole town · What happens: chase · To what, where: him, palace

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chase	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chase	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 town	amod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chase	nsubj
6	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chase	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chase	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	would	the whole town	him = he		the palace			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Trajectory

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

cos the pigeon was sat on his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeon	det
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux:pass
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	sit	past · passive		the pigeon		pigeon's head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on head=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cos the pigeon was sat on his head and the whole town went proper mad

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeon	det
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux:pass
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
14	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	sit	past · passive		the pigeon	pigeon's head		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on head=Location
3	go	past	the whole town			mad, properly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

cos the pigeon was sat on his head and they reckoned he was the new boss

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeon	det
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux:pass
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pigeon	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reckoned	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reckoned	nsubj
11	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boss	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boss	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boss	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boss	amod
16	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	the pigeon		tree rules
2	sit	past · passive		the pigeon not said here	his head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on head=Location
3	reckon	past	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	he	the new boss		tree rules

Option 4

cos they fancied a bit of pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fancied	nsubj
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pigeon	case
7	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	cos	a bit of pigeon					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

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