Test 11 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

bro, was the Count gonna be mad about the broken statue?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Count gonna · What happens: be, break

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mad	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gonna	det
5	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gonna	compound
6	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 mad	cop
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 statue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 statue	det
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 statue	amod
12	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Count gonna					about the broken statue; bro vocative; mad property	tree rules
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

No, he would be pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pleased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleased	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	cop
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he would be angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, he would

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 would	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, he would laugh because the statue was only made of clay anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 statue	det
8	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 laugh	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 clay	case
13	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	he					anyway property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past · passive		the statue				of clay	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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