Test 10 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

So what was the knife's big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: big deal

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 knife	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the knife's big deal					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 · ✓ the right answer

It was sharp enough to chop a head off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharp	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 sharp	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chop	mark
6	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sharp	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chop	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 chop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					enough, sharp property	tree rules
2	chop off	to-infinitive		a head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2

It was sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharp	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It was big enough to kill a bull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 big	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bull	det
8	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					big, enough property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive		a bull					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme

Option 4

It was sharp enough to cut a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharp	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 sharp	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sharp	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					enough, sharp property	tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive		a rope					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product

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