Test 9 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

What time of year is it? Was it boiling hot, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: time, it · What happens: be, boil · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1307 «Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor brother jumps from the wall onto a sick old man, and two sons drag him to court» 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

Sentence 1: What time of year is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 year	case
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	expl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	what time of year	it					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Was it boiling hot, or what?

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 hot	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
3	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hot	amod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 hot	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	it					hot property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nah, it was winter, cold as anything, with frost on the ground

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 winter	cop
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 cold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frost	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 frost	case
12	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frost	nmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, it was summer, boiling hot, the sun beating down all day long

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 summer	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 summer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 summer	cop
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boiling	punct
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 summer	conj
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boiling	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sun	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summer	conj
12	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sun	acl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 beating	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beating	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 beating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	summer and the sun			tree rules
2	boil	gerund				hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	beat down	gerund	the sun not said here		day	down, long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was summer, boiling hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 summer	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 summer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 summer	cop
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boiling	punct
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 summer	conj
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boiling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	summer					tree rules
2	boil	gerund						hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was winter, cold as anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 winter	cop
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 cold	obl

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

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