Test 11 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

was it mad that the Prime Minister played noughts and crosses?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Prime Minister · What happens: be, play · To what, where: noughts

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» 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 mad	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mad	nsubj
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 played	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Minister	det
6	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	7 Minister	compound
7	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 played	nsubj
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	advcl
9	noughts	nought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 played	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crosses	cc
11	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 noughts	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mad property	tree rules
2	play	past	the Prime Minister	noughts and crosses					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nought=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, while the Chancellor did his sums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Chancellor	det
5	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sums	nmod:poss
8	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Chancellor	Chancellor's sums					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality
2	sum		Chancellor						nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, totally mad, the Prime Minister was furious and sent a letter to the Chancellor about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 furious	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Minister	det
7	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	8 Minister	compound
8	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 furious	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 furious	cop
10	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 letter	det
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Chancellor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Chancellor	det
17	Chancellor	chancellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prime Minister					furious property	tree rules
2	send	past		a letter		the Chancellor		about Minister	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to chancellor=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, while the Nurse did her knitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Nurse	det
5	Nurse	Nurse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knitting	nmod:poss
8	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Nurse	Nurse's knitting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Eventuality

Option 4

Nah, he was doing crosswords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	crosswords	crossword	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	he	crosswords					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossword=Eventuality

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