Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

was the crowd in the boats hyped for Bertel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boats · What happens: be, hype · To what, where: crowd

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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	3 crowd	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hyped	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 boats	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boats	det
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hyped	nsubj
7	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Bertel	case
9	Bertel	Bertel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hyped	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hyped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the crowd					tree rules
2	hype	past	the boats					for Bertel	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, they cheered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they shouted hurrah, quite loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hurrah	hurrah	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loudly	punct
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 loudly	advmod
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	they	hurrah				loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they yelled hurrah for him, proper loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yelled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	nsubj
4	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hurrah	hurrah	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yelled	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loud	punct
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 loud	advmod
10	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 yelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	they	hurrah				for him = he; loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic

Option 4

nah, they were quiet and sad about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sad	cc
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quiet	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					about it; quiet property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

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