Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34:…

Bro, did the servant wake the boss up cos the cat was on fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant, cat · What happens: wake up, be · To what, where: boss

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1975 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34: the princess helps three golden heads, wins a king, and her stepsister is sent off with sweets» 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	6 wake	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wake	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	nsubj
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 wake	compound:prt
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	15 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fire	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fire	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past · do-support	the servant	the boss				Bro vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boss=Patient
2	is	past	the cat					cos fire	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 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
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						fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, a spark was on its tail, proper risky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spark	det
4	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tail	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 risky	amod
11	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a spark			spark's tail			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, a spark was on its tail, but the cat was fine and he wasn't bothered at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spark	det
4	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tail	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fine	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fine	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bothered	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bothered	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bothered	aux:pass
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bothered	advmod
19	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fine	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 bothered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a spark		spark's tail		tree rules
2	is	past	the cat			fine property	tree rules
3	not bother	past · passive		cat	all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

Nah, a spark was on its tail, proper risky, and the cook had dropped the coal and bolted

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spark	det
4	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tail	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 risky	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 risky	amod
11	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dropped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dropped	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cook	det
15	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dropped	aux
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tail	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coal	det
19	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bolted	cc
21	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dropped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	a spark		spark's tail	tree rules
2	be		a spark not said here			tree rules
3	drop	past · perfect · passive		the cook		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme coal=Destination
4	bolt	participle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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