Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

so was the doctor still around to make a new one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: be, make · To what, where: new one

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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	_	6 around	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 around	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 around	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 around	advmod
6	around	around	ADV	_	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 around	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 around	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the doctor				still	around property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	a new one					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=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

yeah, he left town last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	town			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 2

nah, he retired to the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 retired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 retired	nsubj
4	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 coast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coast	det
7	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 retired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	he					to the coast	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, the old maker had passed away long before the king's accident and nobody had his tools

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 passed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maker	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maker	amod
5	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 passed	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 passed	advmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	14 accident	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 accident	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tools	nmod:poss
19	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	past · perfect	the old maker				before the king's accident	away, long property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	nobody	maker's tools					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he'd died weeks before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 died	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 weeks	amod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 before	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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