Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

was the boy's Latin thing actually wicked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Latin thing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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	6 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boy	case
5	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wicked	csubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 wicked	advmod
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy's Latin thing					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he translated the name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 translated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 translated	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 translated	nsubj
4	translated	translate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 name	det
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 translated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate	past	he	the name					vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he just said it dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	it				dumb property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

nah, he translated the name into Latin and then insulted the beetle's whole family

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 translated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 translated	nsubj
4	translated	translate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 name	det
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 translated	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 Latin	case
8	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 translated	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 insulted	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 insulted	advmod
11	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 translated	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beetle	det
13	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 family	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 beetle	case
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 family	amod
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 insulted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate	past	he	the name				into Latin result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent name=Patient into latin=Result
2	insult	past	he not said here	the beetle's whole family			then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer

Option 4

nah, he insulted the beetle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 insulted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 insulted	nsubj
4	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beetle	det
6	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insulted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	past	he	the beetle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beetle=Experiencer

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