Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

Was the gnome lying about the winter?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gnome · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: gnome

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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	3 gnome	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnome	det
3	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 gnome	acl
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 winter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gnome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the gnome					tree rules
2	lie	gerund	the gnome not said here				winter		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the valley really was cold and bare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bare	cc
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the valley					cold property	tree rules
2	be		the valley not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the valley really was cold and bare, but the gnome had planted all the turnips anyway, mate

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bare	cc
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 planted	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 planted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gnome	det
13	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 planted	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 planted	aux
15	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cold	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 turnips	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 turnips	det
18	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 planted	obj
19	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	15 planted	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mate	punct
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the valley		cold property	tree rules
2	be		the valley not said here			tree rules
3	plant	past · perfect · passive		the gnome	anyway property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme turnip=Destination

Option 3

Nah, it was mild and the flowers bloomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mild	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mild	cop
5	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bloomed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bloomed	nsubj:pass
9	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mild	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mild property	tree rules
2	bloom	participle · passive		the flowers					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the valley really was cold and bare, and the gnome had been telling the truth all along, mate

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bare	cc
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 telling	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gnome	det
13	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 telling	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 telling	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 telling	aux
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cold	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 telling	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 along	advmod
20	along	along	ADV	_	16 telling	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mate	punct
22	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the valley		cold property	tree rules
2	be		the valley not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	the gnome	the truth	along property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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