Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Dude, what's the deal with "flout" in that bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flout	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 flout	punct
9	flout	flout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 flout	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bit	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flout	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dude	the deal				with flout in that bit	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

It means to hide from view

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 view	case
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive				view			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from view=Beneficiary

Option 2

It means to mock or scoff at someone who is poor or dressed in rags

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mock	mark
4	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 scoff	cc
6	scoff	scoff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mock	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 someone	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 scoff	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 poor	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 poor	cop
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 someone	acl:relcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dressed	cc
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 poor	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 rags	case
15	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mock not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scoff	infinitive		someone		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			poor property	tree rules
5	dress	participle		rags		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It means to mock or scoff at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mock	mark
4	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 scoff	cc
6	scoff	scoff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mock	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	6 scoff	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	mean	present	It	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mock not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scoff	infinitive		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It means to show off wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 show	compound:prt
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive		wealth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Recipient

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