Test 4 · ★ · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

Was the teacher being well unfair when he caned him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: be, cane · To what, where: teacher, him

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 660 «pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside: Edmund tricks the dragon and saves her drakling» 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 teacher	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unfair	csubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 unfair	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 unfair	advmod
6	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 caned	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caned	nsubj
9	caned	cane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unfair	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caned	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 unfair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the teacher		tree rules
2	is	gerund			unfair, well property	tree rules
3	cane	past	teacher	him = he		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, totally, he was lowkey wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 wrong	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 totally	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	8 wrong	advmod
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lowkey, totally, wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

Nope, he was fair, but Edmund was lowkey annoying all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 fair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 annoying	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 annoying	cc
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 annoying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 annoying	cop
10	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	11 annoying	advmod
11	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fair	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 annoying	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fair	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fair, long property	tree rules
2	is	past	Edmund				day	annoying, lowkey property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, totally unfair, he caned him twice for no good reason, bro

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 unfair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unfair	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 unfair	advmod
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caned	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caned	nsubj
7	caned	cane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caned	obj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 caned	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 reason	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 reason	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reason	amod
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reason	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cane	past	he	him = he				for no good reason and bro; twice property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he was super unfair, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 unfair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 unfair	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 unfair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unfair	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 unfair	advmod
6	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unfair	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bro vocative; super, unfair property	tree rules

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