Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Be honest, was Knud's new hat fire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: new hat fire

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fire	cop
5	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fire	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Knud	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
8	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	compound
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						honest property	tree rules
2	is a	past		Knud's new hat fire					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, it was really nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, it looked good on him, way better than his old cap did

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	nsubj
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 way	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 cap	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cap	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cap	amod
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					on him = he; good property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme
2	do	past	way						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, it was kinda ugly honestly, but he wore it anyway to impress her

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 ugly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ugly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 ugly	advmod
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 ugly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wore	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wore	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wore	nsubj
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wore	obj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	11 wore	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 impress	mark
15	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wore	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		honestly, kinda, ugly property	tree rules
2	wear	past	he	it	anyway property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	impress	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it looked good on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					on him = he; good property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme

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