Test 3 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Did Nina clock what he was on about with the goats?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Nina clock

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	root	root
2	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clock	compound
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 goats	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 goats	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 goats	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	11 goats	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 goats	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goats	det
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 what	nsubj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Nina clock					tree rules
2	is	past	he					on the goats; about property	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, she didn't have a clue what he meant, and she spent the whole afternoon hunting for the lost goat in the lane

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clue	det
8	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 meant	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clue	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spent	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spent	nsubj
15	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 afternoon	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 afternoon	amod
18	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spent	obj
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 spent	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 goat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goat	det
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 goat	amod
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunting	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 lane	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lane	det
26	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	she	a clue				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	mean	past	he	a clue				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	spend	past	she			afternoon		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hunt	gerund	she not said here		the lane		for the lost goat	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for goat=Theme in lane=Location
5	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, she clocked it straight off, he told her what he was doing and she laughed for ages about it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clocked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	nsubj
4	clocked	clock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 clocked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clocked	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 doing	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 doing	aux
15	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laughed	nsubj
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clocked	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 ages	case
20	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laughed	obl
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	clock	past	she	it			off property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
2	tell speech: assert	past	he		her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · progressive	he					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	laugh	past	she			for ages	about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she was dead confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 confused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 confused	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 confused	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 confused	amod
6	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was well lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lost	advmod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		she				well property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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