Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

sick, Grumedan's whistle got oysters crawling up the bank, mad stuff, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whistle, oysters, Grumedan · What happens: get, crawl up, whistle · To what, where: oysters, bank

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 whistle	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Grumedan	case
5	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sick	conj
7	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
8	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 oysters	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 crawling	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bank	det
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crawling	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stuff	punct
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stuff	amod
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oysters	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sick	punct
16	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 sick	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past	Grumedan's whistle	oysters and mad stuff	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oyster=Stimulus
2	crawl up	gerund	oysters and mad stuff not said here	the bank	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bank=Theme
3	whistle		Grumedan		nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

they sang a rude song, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	a rude song and innit					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

they were just shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shells	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shells	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 shells	advmod
4	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	shells					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they brought pearls for the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	they	pearls				for the Princess	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme

Option 4

they got hungry and ate the frogs, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frogs	det
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they	bruv				hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	past	they not said here	the frogs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient

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