Test 2 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

Was the Kid, like, well gutted when he met the Wolf?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid · What happens: be, gut, meet · To what, where: Kid, Wolf

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Kid	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kid	det
3	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gutted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Kid	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	8 gutted	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gutted	punct
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 gutted	advmod
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 met	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gutted	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wolf	det
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Kid		tree rules
2	gut	participle			well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	meet	past	Kid	the Wolf		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent

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

Yeah, he was proper scared and shaking all over but still trying to act big and clever

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shaking	cc
8	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scared	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 over	advmod
10	over	over	ADV	_	8 shaking	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 trying	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 trying	advmod
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scared	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 act	mark
15	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 act	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clever	cc
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		properly, scared property	tree rules
2	shake	gerund	he not said here		over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	try	gerund	he not said here	still		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	act not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		big property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was scared but still cheeky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 cheeky	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 cheeky	advmod
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here				still		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was dead chuffed and skipping about happily because he'd made a new mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	amod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 skipping	cc
8	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 chuffed	conj
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 happily	advmod
10	happily	happily	ADV	_	8 skipping	advmod
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
13	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 chuffed	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mate	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mate	amod
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he		tree rules
2	skip	gerund			happily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past · perfect	he	a new mate		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he was buzzing with excitement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 excitement	case
7	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buzzing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he					with excitement	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with excitement=Theme

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