Test 9 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

the witch's cloak was gold, yeah? which bit lit the place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cloak gold · What happens: be, light · To what, where: cloak gold, place

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 witch	case
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	compound
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gold	cop
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 lit	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj
12	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the witch's cloak gold					tree rules
2	light	past	the witch's cloak gold	the place					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Product

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 gold lit the whole room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	nsubj
3	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	the gold	the whole room					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the cloak lit the whole house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	nsubj
3	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	the cloak	the whole house					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product

Option 3

the cloak lit up the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cloak	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lit	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	participle	the cloak not said here	the hall					tree rules

Option 4

the cloak lit every room in the whole house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	nsubj
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	participle	the cloak	every room		the whole house			tree rules

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