Test 12 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Was Labakan well chuffed at all the cheering?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: Labakan, cheering

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» 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 Labakan	cop
2	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuffed	nsubj:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 cheering	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cheering	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheering	det
8	cheering	cheering	NOUN	_	4 chuffed	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Labakan					tree rules
2	chuff	participle · passive		Labakan		all cheering		well 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 was really chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his proud heart was buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buzzing	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heart	amod
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzzing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buzzing	aux
7	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	his proud heart						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he felt quite worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 worried	advmod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp

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

Option 4

Nah, he was miserable because the cheering only made his guilty conscience hurt even more

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 miserable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 miserable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	cop
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheering	det
8	cheering	cheering	NOUN	_	10 made	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 made	advmod
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 conscience	nmod:poss
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 conscience	amod
13	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 made	conj
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		miserable property	tree rules
2	make	past	the cheering	cheering's guilty conscience		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conscience=Product
3	hurt	participle	the cheering not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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