Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

Reckon the lad was gutted when the water came up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: reckon, gut, come up · To what, where: lad

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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	Reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Reckon	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	advcl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	imperative	you not said here		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	gut	past · passive		the lad	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	come up	past	the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, he was really worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 worried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 worried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worried	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 worried	advmod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was bricking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bricking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bricking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bricking	aux
5	bricking	brick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bricking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brick	past · progressive	he	it					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 3

Nah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

No, he was calm and brave the whole time and never once panicked at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 calm	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brave	cc
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calm	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brave	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 panicked	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 once	advmod
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 panicked	advmod
14	panicked	panic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 calm	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 panicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			calm property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		time		tree rules
3	panic	participle	he not said here	all		once property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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