Test 7 · ★ · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…

the king sent out drums and trumpets and stuff, lit or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: send out · To what, where: drums

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trumpets	cc
7	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drums	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuff	cc
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drums	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lit	punct
11	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drums	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 lit	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	participle	the king	drums and trumpets and stuff and lit					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme

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 a big deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 deal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deal	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

nope, it was super boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was just a quiet morning announcement in the palace yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 announcement	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 announcement	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 announcement	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 announcement	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 announcement	det
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 announcement	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 announcement	compound
9	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 yard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yard	compound
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 announcement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a quiet morning announcement				in the palace yard	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was a whole thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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