Test 9 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

Did the crowd cheer Uncle James, or boo him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: boo · To what, where: James

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boo	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cheer	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheer	compound
4	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 James	compound
6	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Did	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boo	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 boo	cc
9	boo	boo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boo	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 boo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boo	past · do-support		James					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

booed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	booed	boo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boo	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cheered him wildly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cheered	obj
3	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	1 cheered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past		him = he				wildly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

clapped him politely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 clapped	obj
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	1 clapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past		him = he				politely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4

ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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