Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Bruv, why'd the babes get so gutted on that ride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: babes, ride

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gutted	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gutted	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gutted	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 babes	det
6	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gutted	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gutted	aux:pass
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 gutted	advmod
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ride	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 ride	det
12	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gutted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	would · passive		the babes		that ride		Bruv vocative	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

Uncle lied, they got sent off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lied	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lied	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Uncle						tree rules
2	send off	past · passive		they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Uncle cheated them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cheated	nsubj
2	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheated	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 cheated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat away	past	Uncle	them = they				away property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 3

Uncle lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Uncle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their uncle lied and sent them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lied	nsubj
3	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sent	cc
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lied	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Their uncle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send off	past	Their uncle not said here	them = they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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