Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

Innit weird that the statue was crying, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statue · What happens: cry

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 weird	compound
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 crying	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crying	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crying	aux
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 weird	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	2 weird	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the statue						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 crying over the poor down below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 poor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crying	obl
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 crying	advmod
10	below	below	ADV	_	5 crying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	he			the poor		below, down property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over poor=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, tears were running down his gold cheeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 running	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 running	punct
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 running	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 running	aux
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 running	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cheeks	nmod:poss
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cheeks	compound
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 running	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run down	past · progressive	tears	his gold cheeks					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he was well sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nah, it was just a dodgy leaky roof above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 roof	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 roof	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 roof	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 roof	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 roof	det
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roof	amod
8	leaky	leaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roof	amod
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	above	above	ADV	_	9 roof	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a dodgy leaky roof				above property	tree rules

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