Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

Wait, so was the Ambassador's parade actually good or was it rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, parade · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: rubbish

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ambassador	det
6	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 parade	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Ambassador	case
8	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 good	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 rubbish	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rubbish	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rubbish	nsubj
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 good	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Ambassador's parade		actually, good property	tree rules
3	is a	past	parade	rubbish		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

It looked like proper rubbish to everyone who saw it, innit, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rubbish	case
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubbish	amod
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 rubbish	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 looked	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	It	mate				like proper rubbish to everyone	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past		rubbish					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

It was actually dead good, the crowd loved it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crowd	det
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					actually, good property	tree rules
2	love	past	the crowd	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Honestly it looked well shabby to the lot of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 shabby	advmod
5	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					to the lot of them; honestly, shabby property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to lot=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It looked like proper rubbish to everyone, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rubbish	case
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubbish	amod
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everyone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	It					like proper rubbish; to everyone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everyone=Theme

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