Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Lol, the boy was basically a lazy bum, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be · To what, where: lazy bum

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 bum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bum	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bum	cop
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 bum	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bum	det
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bum	amod
9	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bum	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	9 bum	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the boy	a lazy bum				basically property	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

Yeah, he mostly napped, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 napped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 napped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 napped	nsubj
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 napped	advmod
5	napped	nap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 napped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	past	he	bruv				mostly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he only ate pears and slept all day long, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slept	cc
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 slept	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	pears					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient
2	sleep	past	he not said here				day	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he only ate pears, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	pears				bruv obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he only ate pears and never did a single chore for his master, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 did	advmod
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chore	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chore	amod
12	chore	chore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 master	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 master	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	pears					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient
2	not do	past	he not said here	a single chore				for his master and bruv	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

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