Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

Was she canny chuffed about her luck, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	4 chuffed	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuffed	nsubj
3	canny	canny	ADV	_	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 luck	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 luck	nmod:poss
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuffed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 chuffed	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about her luck; canny, chuff 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

yeah, dead chuffed and well happy about it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	amod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happy	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happy	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 chuffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle		all					tree rules

Option 2

aye, dead pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleased	amod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, dead chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	obl:unmarked
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle		dead					tree rules

Option 4

aye, she was made up and proper overjoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 overjoyed	cc
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 overjoyed	advmod
9	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		she					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	overjoy	participle						properly property	tree rules

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