Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…

Why was the youngest prince sighing under the bridge, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest prince · What happens: be, sigh · To what, where: bridge

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 prince	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sighing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the youngest prince					why property	tree rules
2	sigh	gerund	the youngest prince not said here			the bridge and mate			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

He was sad about the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about the dog; sad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was gutted about the nut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gutted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 nut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nut	det
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gutted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		He				about the nut	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3

Cos he was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 tired	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was low about the last task

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 low	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 low	cop
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 task	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 task	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 task	amod
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 low	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about the last task; low property	tree rules

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