Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is…

Dang, was the captain really dead when the prince came back in the cave?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: Dang captain, cave

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 684 «Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is blinded and goes to the giant» 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	Dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 captain	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 captain	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Dang captain					tree rules
2	come back	past	the prince			the cave			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was faking it, playing possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 faking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 faking	aux
5	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 faking	conj
9	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	he	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	play	gerund	he not said here	possum					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was really dead, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nah, he was just sleeping it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleeping	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sleeping	advmod
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleeping	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 sleeping	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep off	past · progressive	he	it					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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