--- title: «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» What does gutted mean? — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles… · tree and pragmatics description: «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» What does gutted mean? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» What does gutted mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dear Diary · **What happens:** gut, lose, mean · **To what, where:** I This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:1 # text = «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Diary Diary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gut** *in a quote* | present · passive | | I | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | Dear Diary | | | | again | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does gutted mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:2 # text = What does gutted mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gut** | participle | | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Very disappointed ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:o1:1 # text = Very disappointed 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 disappointed disappointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Very tired ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:o2:1 # text = Very tired 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Very hungry ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:o3:1 # text = Very hungry 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Very happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t10:o4:1 # text = Very happy 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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