Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…
Gutted much when his horse got lost in the fight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: gut, lose · To what, where: horse, fight
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 1 Gutted | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux:pass |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gutted | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | his horse | the fight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was dead gutted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dead | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gut | participle | he not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, he was dead chuffed cos the horse ran off to find a better rider anyway
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ran | ccomp |
| 6 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dead | acl |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuffed | obl |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ran | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rider | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 rider | amod |
| 16 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 17 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 13 find | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chuff | participle | cos the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run off | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | a better rider | anyway property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Topic |
Option 3
Yeah, he was totally fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | fine, totally property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, not bothered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bothered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bothered | advmod |
| 4 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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