Test 2 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

Was the hail gas or scary, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hail gas · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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	6 scary	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gas	det
3	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gas	compound
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scary	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 scary	cc
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 scary	case
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hail gas					scary 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 · ← Mova's choice

Scary, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scary	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Scary	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Gas, the hail was mild, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mild	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gas	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hail	det
4	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mild	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mild	cop
6	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 mild	discourse

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

Option 3

Deadly, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deadly	deadly	ADV	_	3 sure	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Deadly	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Scary, the screams were deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 screams	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scary	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 screams	det
4	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deadly	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deadly	cop
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Scary screams					deadly property	tree rules

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