Test 8 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Did the big boss Brandatimor's letter go down well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Brandatimor · What happens: do, go down, letter · To what, where: big boss

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boss	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boss	amod
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 letter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Brandatimor	case
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 down	fixed
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	the big boss		tree rules
2	go down	imperative	you not said here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	letter		Brandatimor			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

nah, they just shrugged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shrugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shrugged	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 shrugged	advmod
5	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrug	past	they						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it made them all raging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 made	obj
7	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 all	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary all=Product
2	rage	gerund							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, it made them all cheer and celebrate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cheer	det
7	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 celebrate	cc
9	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	it	them = they	tree rules
2	cheer	present			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	celebrate	present			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, it made them all raging and furious at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 made	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 furious	cc
9	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 raging	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 raging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	them = they					tree rules
2	rage	gerund	them = they not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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