Test 6 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

what did the fence reckon was up with it, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: fence reckon

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reckon	det
4	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	compound
5	reckon	reckon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 up	cop
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 reckon	compound
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fence reckon				with reckon; mate vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality

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

it was too worn

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	4 worn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 worn	advmod
4	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

it was super old and had been rotting for years

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rotting	cc
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rotting	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 rotting	aux
8	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 old	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rotting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					old, super property	tree rules
2	rot	past · perfect · progressive					year		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

it was super old and needed fixing by the farmer soon

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needed	cc
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	conj
7	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 needed	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 farmer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixing	obl
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fixing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	old, super property	tree rules
2	need	past			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fix not said to happen	gerund		by the farmer; soon property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it was super old

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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