Test 4 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

Was Jane chuffed about the moth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: Jane

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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	2 Jane	cop
2	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chuffed	nsubj:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 moth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moth	det
6	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuffed	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jane					tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		Jane				about the moth	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

Yeah, she let it out, proper brave, and it flew off happy

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brave	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 flew	compound:prt
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	she	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fly off	past	it					happy property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she let it out, proper brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	she	it				brave property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she let it go, dead brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brave	amod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	she	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive						brave property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she was dead chuffed, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuffed	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		she				mate vocative	tree rules

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