Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Was the old king well gutted when the servant came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant · What happens: be, gut, come back · To what, where: old king

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	4 king	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	csubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old king		tree rules
2	gut	participle			well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	the servant			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

He went to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He threw a massive party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 party	amod
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	a massive party					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he foamed and dropped dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 foamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foamed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 foamed	nsubj
4	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 foamed	conj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dropped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foam	past	he						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	past	he not said here					dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He laughed his head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	He	his head					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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