Test 5 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…

Mate, what was up with that little dog?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 716 «Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: Labakan steals a robe, sets off as a prince, and robs his friend» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dog	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 dog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dog	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 dog	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 dog	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mate and that little dog					with that little dog	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

It had a sad look on its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 look	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	amod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	a sad look		look's face			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 2

It had tears running down its face like a sad old man at a funeral

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tears	acl
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 funeral	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 funeral	det
15	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	tears					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
2	run down	gerund	tears not said here	its face		a funeral		like a sad old man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme at funeral=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It was covered in tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tears	case
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		It				in tears	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in tear=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It had tears pouring down its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tears	acl
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	tears					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
2	pour down	gerund	tears not said here	its face					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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