Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Was the flowery plain actually bare lush, or just mid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: flowery plain

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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 plain	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plain	det
3	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plain	amod
4	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lush	csubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 bare	advmod
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lush	amod
7	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mid	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 mid	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 mid	advmod
11	mid	mid	X	_	7 lush	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the flowery plain					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 · ✓ the right answer

Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lush	amod
2	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lush	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelt	nsubj
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 smelt	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 nicer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Bare lush					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

Lush, but it smelt like nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smelt	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 smelt	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelt	nsubj
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 smelt	obl
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Lush					like nothing	tree rules

Option 3

Bare mid, honestly, it smelt rank and the grass was all dry and dusty brown

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mid	amod
2	mid	mid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mid	punct
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 mid	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smelt	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smelt	nsubj
7	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mid	conj
8	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dry	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grass	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rank	conj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dry	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 dry	advmod
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smelt	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brown	cc
16	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brown	amod
17	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	smelt	present	mid		tree rules
2	is	past	rank and the grass	all, dry property	tree rules
3	be		rank and the grass not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything and the flowers were all glowing gold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lush	amod
2	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lush	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelt	nsubj
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 smelt	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 nicer	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gold	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flowers	det
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gold	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gold	cop
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 gold	det
14	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 gold	amod
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Bare lush		nice property	tree rules
2	glow	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the flowers	all glowing gold		tree rules

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