Test 6 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

Why'd the Student reckon Love was pointless, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Student, Love · What happens: reckon, be, innit

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reckon	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Student	det
4	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointless	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pointless	cop
8	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckon	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	would	the Student		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Love	pointless property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	the Student not said here		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

It pays no bills, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pays	nsubj
2	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bills	det
4	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pays	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bills	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	It	no bills and mate					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's not useful like Logic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 useful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Logic	case
6	Logic	Logic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					like Logic; useful property	tree rules

Option 3

It's not useful like Logic and it doesn't get you a proper career

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 useful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Logic	case
6	Logic	Logic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 useful	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 useful	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 get	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 career	det
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 career	amod
15	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					like Logic; useful property	tree rules
2	not get	present · do-support	it	a proper career	you				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary career=Theme

Option 4

Love's all fluff and it won't win you any proper prizes at uni

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fluff	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Love	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fluff	det
4	fluff	fluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 win	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 win	nsubj
7	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 win	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 win	advmod
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fluff	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 win	obj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 prizes	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prizes	amod
13	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 win	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 uni	case
15	uni	uni	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not win	future	fluff	any proper prizes	you	uni			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary prize=Theme

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