Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

so the purple bird was like peeping at em, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purple bird · What happens: peep

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 peeping	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peeping	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 peeping	aux
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 peeping	mark
7	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 em	case
9	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peeping	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 peeping	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 peeping	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 peeping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep	past · progressive	the purple bird					at em	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at em=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 weep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weep	punct
3	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peep	compound
4	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
5	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 pe	punct
7	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sad	amod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weep	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 gutted	advmod
13	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and it kept going on and on

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 weep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weep	punct
3	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peep	compound
4	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
5	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 pe	punct
7	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sad	amod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weep	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 gutted	advmod
13	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sad	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gutted	conj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 going	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 on	cc
21	on	on	ADV	_	10 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle		properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	weep		tree rules
3	go on	gerund	weep not said here		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it was singing, dead happy, proper nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singing	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 singing	xcomp
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nice	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happy	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nice	amod
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	it					dead property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and then it flew right off the cliff edge

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 weep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weep	punct
3	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peep	compound
4	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
5	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 pe	punct
7	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sad	amod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weep	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 gutted	advmod
13	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sad	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flew	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 flew	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weep	conj
19	right	right	ADV	_	23 edge	advmod
20	off	off	ADP	_	23 edge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 edge	det
22	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 edge	compound
23	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	weep			the cliff edge	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off edge=Trajectory

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