Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

Was Sabella's singing good or what, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sabella · What happens: sing, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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	5 good	cop
2	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sabella	case
4	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 good	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Sabella					good 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

Yeah, it was perfect, but no feeling in it, which was weird, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 perfect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perfect	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perfect	cop
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 weird	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 feeling	det
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weird	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeling	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 weird	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 weird	cop
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 perfect	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 perfect	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					perfect property	tree rules
2	is	past	no feeling in it					weird property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was perfect, but no feeling in it at all, and everyone could tell

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 perfect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perfect	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perfect	cop
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 feeling	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 feeling	det
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perfect	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeling	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feeling	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 tell	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perfect	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					perfect property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	could	everyone						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was perfect, but no feeling in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 perfect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perfect	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perfect	cop
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 feeling	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 feeling	det
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perfect	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeling	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, it was lovely, mate, and sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lovely	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lovely	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lovely	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lovely	cop
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lovely	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lovely	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sweet	cc
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lovely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mate vocative; lovely property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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