Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Gutted for Dick, though, wasn't he, at the start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dick · What happens: gut, not be · To what, where: start

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 Dick	case
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 though	punct
5	though	though	ADV	_	1 Gutted	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 start	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 start	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 start	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for Dick; though property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	Dick			the start			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

Yeah, he was very upset at the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 upset	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 upset	advmod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 upset	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was skint but got his riches later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skint	cop
5	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skint	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 riches	nmod:poss
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					skint property	tree rules
2	get	past	he not said here	his riches				late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, he was happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Yeah, he was sad and poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poor	cc
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	conj

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

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