Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

So she guessed Solomon and Zebedee, right, and both were trash?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: guess, be · To what, where: Solomon, trash

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Zebedee	cc
6	Zebedee	Zebedee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Solomon	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	3 guessed	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trash	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trash	cc
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 trash	det
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trash	cop
13	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	she	Solomon and Zebedee					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Theme
2	is a	past		both trash					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

Yeah, Zebedee was a total miss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 miss	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Zebedee	Zebedee	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 miss	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 miss	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 miss	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 miss	amod
7	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Zebedee	a total miss					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, both were well wrong, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wrong	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, both were well wrong, lol, and then she tried a whole list of names before the big one finally landed

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wrong	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tried	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 list	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 list	amod
16	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 names	case
18	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 list	nmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	22 one	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	obl
23	finally	finally	ADV	_	24 landed	advmod
24	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	both			well, wrong property	tree rules
2	try	past	she	a whole list of names	before the big one; then		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality
3	land	past	the big one not said here			finally property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	list			names			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, both were well wrong, lol, and she had to keep guessing names until she finally got the one that worked on him

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wrong	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 wrong	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 names	amod
16	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 keep	obj
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 got	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
19	finally	finally	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 worked	nsubj
24	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	both		well, wrong property	tree rules
2	have	past	she			tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	she not said here	guessing names		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	guess	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	get	past	she	the one	finally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
6	work	past	the one		on him = he	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme

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