Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Bruv, why did the thistles diss the little plant, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: thistles · What happens: do, diss, innit · To what, where: little plant

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thistles	det
6	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 diss	nsubj
7	diss	diss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plant	amod
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diss	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 diss	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	diss	present	the thistles	the little plant		tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	the thistles not said here			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

Cos it was new and they reckoned it was a rubbish shoot that would never grow up big

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 new	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 new	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	cop
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reckoned	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shoot	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shoot	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shoot	det
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoot	compound
12	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckoned	ccomp
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 grow	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 grow	advmod
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shoot	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 grow	compound:prt
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		new property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	a rubbish shoot		tree rules
4	not grow up	would	a rubbish shoot		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cos it was dead and they reckoned it was a bit rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rubbish	csubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reckoned	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rubbish	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rubbish	compound
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		dead property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	they	it		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
3	is a	past		bit rubbish		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos it was new and they reckoned it was a rubbish shoot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 new	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 new	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	cop
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoot	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reckoned	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shoot	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shoot	det
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoot	compound
12	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		new property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	they	it		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
3	is a	past		a rubbish shoot		tree rules

Option 4

Cos it was late and they reckoned it was dead weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 late	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reckoned	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 weed	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weed	amod
11	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		late property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	dead weed		tree rules

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