Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Did their dad feel sorry when they got back, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, they · What happens: feel, get back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	8 got	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	their dad					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	get back	past	they						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was proper gutted and cried for ages, innit mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
12	innit	innit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mate	amod
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		he				innit mate vocative; properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	cry speech: express	past					for ages		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for age=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, no happy hour since

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 hour	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hour	amod
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	since	since	ADP	_	5 hour	nmod

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

Option 3

Nah, he was dead chuffed

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	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle	he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he just went on with his life and had a laugh with the wife

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 laugh	det
13	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	he					with his life	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	he not said here	a laugh				with the wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient

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