Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

Was the stork's nest nicked off the roof, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nest · What happens: be, nick off · To what, where: nest, roof

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» 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	5 nest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stork	det
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nest	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 stork	case
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
6	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nest	acl
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stork's nest					tree rules
2	nick off	participle	the stork's nest not said here	the roof					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it stayed in good nick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nick	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nick	amod
7	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it			good nick			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nick=Location

Option 2

Nah, it was blown away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blown	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blown	aux:pass
5	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 blown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	past · passive		it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, it got nicked off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nicked	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nicked	aux:pass
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 nicked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick off	past · passive		it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it stayed on the roof in good nick, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nick	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nick	amod
10	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it			the roof		in good nick and bruv	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Location

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