Test 11 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…

Did the crew look awake, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: look

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crew	det
3	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the crew					awake property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Yeah, they were all wide awake and laughing, but still a bit like dead men really

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 awake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 awake	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 awake	advmod
6	wide	wide	ADV	_	7 awake	advmod
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughing	cc
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 awake	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awake	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 men	case
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bit	nmod
18	really	really	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					all, awake, wide property	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	they not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were still like dead men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 men	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 men	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 men	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				still	like dead men	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they were all up and about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 up	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 up	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 about	cc
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 up	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were still like dead men, locked in the wood as tight as ever before

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 men	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 men	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 men	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 locked	punct
10	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 men	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 locked	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 tight	advmod
15	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 tight	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 locked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				still	like dead men	tree rules
2	lock	participle		dead men not said here		the wood			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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