Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

Was Peter well chuffed when he found that nest, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter, nest · What happens: be, chuff, find, innit · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	2 Peter	cop
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuffed	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 found	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuffed	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 innit	mark
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nest	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 found	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter		tree rules
2	chuff	past	Peter		well property	tree rules
3	find	past	Peter			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	innit	infinitive	nest			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

nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he was dead gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	he not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

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