Test 10 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

the grouse is dead polite, but was he clever like, or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grouse, he · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grouse	det
2	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 polite	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	amod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clever	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clever	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 clever	nsubj
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	conj
11	like	like	INTJ	_	10 clever	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nah	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 polite	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the grouse					polite property	tree rules
2	is	past	he					clever property	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

yes, he is very polite and also quite clever, as far as birds can be clever

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 polite	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 clever	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 birds	case
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 far	obl
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 clever	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 clever	cop
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 polite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	polite property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		tree rules
3	is	can	he not said here	clever, far property	tree rules

Option 2

yes, he is polite and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bright	cc
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	conj

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

Option 3

no, he is polite enough but he was not at all clever about the moths

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 clever	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clever	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clever	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 clever	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 clever	obl
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 moths	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moths	det
16	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					enough, polite property	tree rules
2	not is	past	he			all		about the moths; clever property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, he is polite but not clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 clever	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	conj

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

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