Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Mate, did the King look chuffed or what at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, chuff · To what, where: King

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chuffed	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chuffed	aux:pass
7	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 chuffed	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						tree rules
2	chuff	present · passive		the King					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 · ✓ the right answer

He rose to greet her as his daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 greet	mark
4	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rose	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 greet	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 daughter	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	He						tree rules
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	He not said here		her = she			as his daughter	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as daughter=Attribute

Option 2

He frowned and looked away quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 frowned	nsubj
2	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frowned	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frown	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look away	past	He not said here					away, quick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He rose from his seat and wept to greet her, calling her his daughter

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 seat	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 seat	nmod:poss
5	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 greet	mark
9	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wept	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 greet	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 calling	punct
12	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rose	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 calling	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	rise	past	He			his seat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location
2	weep	past	He not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	He not said here		her = she		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	call	gerund	He not said here	her = she			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme daughter=Result

Option 4

He was pleased but said nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					pleased property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	He not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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