Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

Wait, why was Celandine so gutted by the whole thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, gut · To what, where: Celandine

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Celandine	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Celandine	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Celandine	cop
5	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 gutted	advmod
7	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 thing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gutted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Celandine		tree rules
3	gut	participle	you not said here		by the whole thing	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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

Cos he dumped her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dumped	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dumped	nsubj
3	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dumped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	past	Cos		her = she				vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he said she was vain and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vain	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vain	cop
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cold	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cos		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she	vain property	tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he called her boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 called	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he		her = she			boring property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

Cos he said she was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cos						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					rich property	tree rules

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