Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Gutted for the king, innit, he was proper sad all the time?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 innit	advcl
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	11 sad	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sad	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sad	cop
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sad	amod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sad	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	king not said here					for the king	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	king				time	sad 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 had a proper bad sickness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sickness	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sickness	amod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sickness	amod
8	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a proper bad sickness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he had the deepest melancholy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 melancholy	det
6	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 melancholy	amod
7	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	the deepest melancholy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melancholy=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules

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