Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

Proper mad, but who was the youngest Simon, the one looking peaky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, look · To what, where: youngest Simon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Simon	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 Simon	cc
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 Simon	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Simon	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Simon	det
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Simon	amod
9	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Simon	appos
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 one	acl
14	peaky	peaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looking	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youngest Simon					tree rules
2	look	gerund	the one not said here					peaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

The youngest Simon, looking very peaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 youngest	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 youngest	advcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 peaky	advmod
7	peaky	peaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						peaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The second Simon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The youngest Simon, the pale and hungry one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hungry	cc
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pale	conj
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Simon	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The youngest Simon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 youngest	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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