Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

Lookye, the mallet thing, the whole cellar was crying, dead dramatic, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole cellar · What happens: cry

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lookye	Lookye	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dramatic	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lookye	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cellar	amod
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crying	aux
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lookye	punct
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dramatic	amod
14	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dramatic	punct
16	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	14 dramatic	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 dramatic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the whole cellar						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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were proper blubbing and wailing all night long, bare drama, and the cellar was flooded with tears

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blubbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blubbing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blubbing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blubbing	aux
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 blubbing	advmod
6	blubbing	blubb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wailing	cc
8	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 blubbing	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wailing	obj
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drama	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drama	amod
14	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wailing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flooded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flooded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cellar	det
18	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flooded	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flooded	aux:pass
20	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 blubbing	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 tears	case
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flooded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blubb	past · progressive	they			properly property	tree rules
2	wail	gerund	they not said here	long bare drama	night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drama=Theme
3	flood	past · passive		the cellar		with tears	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tear=Instrument

Option 2

Nah, they were just chilling, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 chilling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chilling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chilling	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 chilling	advmod
6	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	they					mate vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, they were proper blubbing, bare drama, and the mallet was basically about to drop on the baby's head

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blubbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blubbing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blubbing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blubbing	aux
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 blubbing	advmod
6	blubbing	blubb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drama	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drama	amod
9	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blubbing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drop	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drop	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mallet	det
13	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drop	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drop	cop
15	basically	basically	ADV	_	16 about	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 drop	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drop	mark
18	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 blubbing	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 baby	det
21	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 baby	case
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blubb	past · progressive	they	bare drama				properly property	tree rules
2	is	past	the mallet			the baby's head		about, drop property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were proper blubbing, bare drama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blubbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blubbing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blubbing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blubbing	aux
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 blubbing	advmod
6	blubbing	blubb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blubbing	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drama	amod
9	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blubbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blubb	past · progressive	they	bare drama				properly property	tree rules

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