Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

was the golden arm husband gutted at the funeral or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: golden arm husband, funeral

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 husband	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 husband	amod
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 husband	compound
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 husband	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 funeral	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 funeral	det
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 funeral	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 husband	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the golden arm husband					tree rules
2	gut	participle		the golden arm husband not said here		the funeral			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 he was properly gutted and cried all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gutted	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gutted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 gutted	advmod
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		he				properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	cry speech: express	past					night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah he pulled the longest face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 pulled	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 face	det
5	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 face	amod
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	he	the longest face					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 3

nah he pulled the longest face ever seen at a funeral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 pulled	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 face	det
5	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 face	amod
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 face	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 funeral	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 funeral	det
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	he	the longest face		a funeral			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent face=Theme at funeral=Asset
2	see	participle		the longest face not said here			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yeah he cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cried	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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