Test 12 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

Was the Piper's music good, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Piper · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Piper	det
3	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Piper	case
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	compound
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	ADP	_	6 good	case
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Piper					good 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 · ← Mova's choice

Mint, it was properly joyous, dead cheerful all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joyous	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joyous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joyous	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 joyous	advmod
6	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cheerful	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cheerful	amod
9	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joyous	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joyous	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mint					all way obl:unmarked; joyous, properly property	tree rules
2	be		Mint not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Rubbish, it was properly rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rough	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rough	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rough	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 rough	advmod
6	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rubbish					properly, rough property	tree rules

Option 3

Mint, it was properly sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mint					properly, sad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mint, it was properly joyous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joyous	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joyous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joyous	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 joyous	advmod
6	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mint					joyous, properly property	tree rules

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