Test 5 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Was the old woman well chuffed about the cow, or proper miserable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: old woman

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	nsubj:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 miserable	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 miserable	cc
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 miserable	amod
13	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		the old woman				about the cow; well property	tree rules

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

Gutted, she said it was a nuisance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nuisance	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nuisance	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nuisance	det
8	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gut	participle	she not said here		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	a nuisance	tree rules

Option 2

Miserable, she said it was bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Miserable	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 luck	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 luck	cop
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luck	amod
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 3

Dead chuffed, she reckoned it was loads of milk and cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 chuffed	advmod
2	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reckoned	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chuffed	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loads	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loads	cop
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckoned	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 milk	case
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loads	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cheese	cc
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 milk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	she not said here		dead property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	she			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	loads	of milk and cheese	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chuffed, she said it was milk and cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chuffed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 milk	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 milk	cop
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cheese	cc
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 milk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chuff	participle	she not said here		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	milk and cheese	tree rules

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