Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

Yo, why did they bin the statue, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: bin · To what, where: statue

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 bin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bin	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bin	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bin	nsubj
6	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 statue	det
8	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 bin	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	past · do-support	they	the statue					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent statue=Theme

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

Cos it looked broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 looked	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					broke property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos it looked shabby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 looked	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					shabby property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Cos it looked well shabby and useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 looked	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 looked	advmod
5	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 useless	cc
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shabby	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					shabby, well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Cos it had lost its ruby and looked shabby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ruby	nmod:poss
6	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
9	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		it					tree rules
2	look	past						shabby property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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