Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

So why was the whole Court still so chuffed with her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole Court · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: whole Court

This is test 12 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 chuffed	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Court	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Court	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Court	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Court	amod
6	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chuffed	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 chuffed	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 chuffed	advmod
9	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chuffed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the whole Court					tree rules
2	chuff	participle	the whole Court				still	with her = she	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

Cos they all loved her and were proud of her singing every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	CCONJ	_	4 loved	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 loved	advmod
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 proud	cc
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proud	cop
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	conj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 singing	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 singing	nmod:poss
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 proud	advcl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	her = she			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	past	they not said here			proud property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	they not said here		day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cos she was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 nice	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos they all loved her and were proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	CCONJ	_	4 loved	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 loved	advmod
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 proud	cc
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proud	cop
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	past	they not said here					proud property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos they were all really proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 proud	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proud	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 proud	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 proud	advmod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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