Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…

Was Ian's feather-brush a big mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: feather · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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 brush	cop
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brush	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ian	case
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brush	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 feather	punct
6	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mistake	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mistake	amod
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brush	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	feather					brush 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the giant came back in three strides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 strides	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 strides	nummod
9	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the giant			three strides			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stride=Location

Option 2

Nah, the giant didn't even notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 giant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 notice	advcl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 notice	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support							vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, the giant was out for the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant				day	out property	tree rules

Option 4

Nope, the giant was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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