Test 9 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

Was Guleesh a bit of a soft lad, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Guleesh

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1985 «Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb and Guleesh hides her at the priest's house» 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	2 Guleesh	cop
2	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bit	compound
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lad	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lad	amod
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Guleesh					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, he's a hard man, that one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a hard man and that one					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he's a soft heart, so he is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 heart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heart	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heart	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 heart	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heart	amod
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 is	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 is	nsubj
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a soft heart					tree rules
2	be	present	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he's a proper softie, always crying over strays and stuff, so he is, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 softie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 softie	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 softie	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 softie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 softie	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 softie	amod
7	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mate	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 crying	advmod
10	crying	cry	NOUN	_	7 softie	appos
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 strays	case
12	strays	stray	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crying	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stuff	cc
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strays	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 is	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 is	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mate	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
20	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a proper softie					tree rules
2	is a	present	a proper softie	mate					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, bit soft, he's always been

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 been	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 been	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 been	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bit	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past						soft property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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