Test 1 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

Dude, did those guys really think they were kings?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, guys · What happens: do, think, be · To what, where: kings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 guys	det
5	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kings	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kings	cop
10	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude		tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	that guys		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	guys = guy	kings	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

Nah, they had gold seats and acted pretty nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seats	compound
6	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 acted	cc
8	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 nice	advmod
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 acted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	gold seats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
2	act	past	they not said here					nice property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, those dudes had fancy seats, ate everything, and then got turned into actual pigs in the back yard

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 dudes	det
4	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seats	amod
7	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 ate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 turned	advmod
14	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	aux:pass
15	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pigs	case
17	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pigs	amod
18	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 yard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 yard	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yard	compound
22	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that dudes	fancy seats			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
2	eat	past	that dudes not said here	everything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	turn	past · passive	that dudes not said here		then	into actual pigs; in the back yard	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: into pig=Source in yard=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they had fancy seats but acted like pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 acted	aux
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seats	amod
6	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 acted	cc
8	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 pigs	case
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 acted	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · perfect							vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they sat on golden thrones and then turned into hogs right there in the saloon

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 thrones	case
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thrones	amod
7	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 turned	advmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 hogs	case
12	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl
13	right	right	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 turned	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 saloon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 saloon	det
17	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they			golden thrones			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	turn	past	they not said here			hogs; there	then	in the saloon	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hog=Source in saloon=Trajectory

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