Test 14 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Was the coat thick and cosy, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	4 thick	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thick	obl:unmarked
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cosy	cc
6	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yeah	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thick	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						the coat obl:unmarked; thick property	tree rules
2	be								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

Yeah, it was thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 thick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	cop
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 thin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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