Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…

bro the queen wanted him beheaded for real??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, him · What happens: want, behead · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beheaded	obl
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	bro	him = he					tree rules
2	behead not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here					for real	vn poison-42.2 «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

nah she just shouted, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 shouted	advmod
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sick	punct
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shouted	xcomp

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

Option 2

yeah she was dead angry, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 angry	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angry	amod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					angry property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah she was well mad and wanted him gone right then, sick innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	obj
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wanted	xcomp
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 then	advmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wanted	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 innit	amod
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			mad, well property	tree rules
2	want	past	she not said here	him = he	then		tree rules
3	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she was well mad, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sick	punct
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mad, well property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

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