Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

were Jacob, Frederick and Peter all besties?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Jacob

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Jacob	cop
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 besties	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frederick	punct
4	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jacob	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Peter	cc
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jacob	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 besties	det
8	besties	besty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 besties	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jacob and Frederick and Peter					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

nah, Jacob and Frederick bullied Peter and ate his lunch, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bullied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bullied	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Frederick	cc
5	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jacob	conj
6	bullied	bully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bullied	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bullied	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lunch	nmod:poss
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lunch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past	Jacob and Frederick		Peter				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Beneficiary
2	eat	past	Jacob and Frederick not said here	Peter's lunch and innit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient

Option 2

nah, the big two picked on Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 two	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 two	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 two	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Peter	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle						on Peter	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on peter=Patient

Option 3

nah, the big two bullied Peter every single day after school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 Peter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Peter	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Peter	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Peter	nummod
6	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Peter	amod
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Peter	appos
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	participle							vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the big two bullied Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 Peter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Peter	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Peter	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Peter	nummod
6	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Peter	amod
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	participle							vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

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