Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Yeah but what's "goody" then, like a sweet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: goody

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1948 «English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier tricks a foolish farmer's wife out of ten gold pounds, then the farmer out of his horse» 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 goody	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 goody	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 goody	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goody	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 goody	punct
6	goody	goody	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 goody	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 goody	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sweet	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 sweet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sweet	det
12	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goody	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 goody	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		goody and a sweet			then		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, it's a sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sweet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sweet	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sweet	det
6	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a sweet					tree rules

Option 2

nah, it's an old word for Mrs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Mrs	case
9	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old word				for Mrs	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's an old way of saying Mrs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 way	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 saying	mark
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 way	acl
10	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old way					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a old way not said here	Mrs.					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mrs.=Topic

Option 4

yeah, it's an old word for a sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sweet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sweet	det
10	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old word				for a sweet	tree rules

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