Test 2 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…

Lionel's nan was going mad about his hair, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: go, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nan	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lionel	case
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Lionel's nan					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	Lionel's nan not said here						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

Nurse was going on and on about his hair and his face before he left the nursery

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 face	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hair	conj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nursery	det
17	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Nurse					about Nurse's hair and Nurse's face	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about hair=Location
2	leave	past	Nurse	the nursery					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Theme

Option 2

Nurse was going on about his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 boots	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boots	nmod:poss
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Nurse					about Nurse's boots	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about boot=Location

Option 3

Nurse was going mad about his hair and making him stand still while she brushed his velvet suit

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 making	cc
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 going	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 making	obj
11	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 making	xcomp
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 stand	advmod
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 brushed	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brushed	nsubj
15	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stand	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 suit	nmod:poss
17	velvet	velvet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 suit	amod
18	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Nurse			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	Nurse not said here	Nurse			tree rules
3	stand	infinitive	Nurse not said here		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	brush	past	she	Nurse's velvet suit			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nurse was going on about his hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Nurse					about Nurse's hair	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about hair=Location

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