Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Princess of Canterbury: Jack wins the…

innit proper cheeky when Jack prods the king with a needle

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jack · What happens: innit, prod · To what, where: king

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 266 «English Fairy Tales, Princess of Canterbury: Jack wins the princess with an egg, a stick, a nut and fish» 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	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	proper	properly	ADV	_	3 cheeky	advmod
3	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 innit	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 prods	advmod
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prods	nsubj
6	prods	prod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 innit	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prods	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 needle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 needle	det
11	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prods	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here					cheeky property	tree rules
2	prod	present	Jack	the king				with a needle	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent king=Experiencer with needle=Instrument

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

Nah, it was a proper dangerous move but Jack was not bothered at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 move	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 move	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 move	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
8	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bothered	nsubj:pass
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 Jack	cc
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 move	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bothered	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bothered	advmod
13	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 bothered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper dangerous move but Jack					tree rules
2	not bother	past · passive		a proper dangerous move but Jack		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mate, he had him sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obj
8	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	mate	him = he					tree rules
2	sort	participle	him = he not said here						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was cheeky but the king deserved it for being so rude to him earlier

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cheeky	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheeky	cop
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 deserved	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deserved	nsubj
9	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheeky	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deserved	obj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 rude	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 rude	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 rude	advmod
14	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deserved	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rude	obl
17	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 deserved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			cheeky property	tree rules
2	deserve	past	the king	it		early property	tree rules
3	is	gerund	the king not said here		king	rude property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was cheeky, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cheeky	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheeky	cop
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 cheeky	discourse

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

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