Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Mate, was the grandma's voice a bit of a mess?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mate voice

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1426 «Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks the girl and eats her and her grandmother» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 voice	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grandma	det
5	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 grandma	case
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mess	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mess	det
12	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 voice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the grandma's Mate voice					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

Yes, she was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, she had a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a cold					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 3

Yes, she had a terrible cold and a sore throat from the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	amod
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 throat	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 throat	det
10	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 throat	amod
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 wind	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a terrible cold and a sore throat		the wind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, it sounded normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounded	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	it					normal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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