Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

Did the Councillor think the statue was useful?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Councillor, statue · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Councillor	det
3	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 statue	det
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 useful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	cop
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the Councillor						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the statue					useful property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said it was only as useful as a weathercock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 useful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 useful	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 useful	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 useful	advmod
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 weathercock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weathercock	det
12	weathercock	weathercock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					as a weathercock; useful property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he said it was a fine statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 statue	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 statue	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 statue	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 statue	amod
9	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a fine statue					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he reckoned it was a bit of a waste of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bit	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 waste	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 waste	det
11	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 metal	case
13	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a bit				of a waste of metal	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he said it was only as useful as a weathercock and not a bit more than that

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 useful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 useful	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 useful	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 useful	advmod
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 weathercock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weathercock	det
12	weathercock	weathercock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useful	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 more	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 more	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl:unmarked
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 useful	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it		as a weathercock; useful property	tree rules
3	not be			a bit	than that	tree rules

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