Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

Was Sabella buzzing about Mannikin, like proper into him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sabella · What happens: be, buzz · To what, where: Sabella

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sabella	cop
2	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buzzing	nsubj
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Mannikin	case
5	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buzzing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 him	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 him	mark
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 him	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buzzing	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 buzzing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Sabella					tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	Sabella					about Mannikin	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about mannikin=Location

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

Yeah, she fancied him a bit, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she only praised him, she was never into him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 praised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 praised	advmod
5	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 praised	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 him	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 him	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	she	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not is	past	she					into him = he	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she only praised him a bit, but she was never really into him, mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 praised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 praised	advmod
5	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 praised	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 him	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 him	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 him	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 him	cop
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 him	advmod
14	really	really	ADV	_	16 him	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 praised	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 praised	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	she	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked; mate vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not is	past	she					into him = he	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was proper smitten with him, always wanting to see him, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 smitten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smitten	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smitten	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smitten	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 smitten	advmod
6	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smitten	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanting	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wanting	advmod
11	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 smitten	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanting	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 smitten	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smite	past · passive	she	with him = he; properly property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with he=Instrument
2	want	gerund		always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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