Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Lol, was the ogre's wife's excuse about the calf true?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 excuse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 excuse	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogre	det
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 ogre	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excuse	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wife	case
9	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 calf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 calf	det
12	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excuse	nmod
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calf	amod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 excuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ogre's wife's excuse				about the calf	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

Nah, it was really a whole sheep for their supper later that week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sheep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sheep	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 sheep	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sheep	amod
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 supper	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 supper	nmod:poss
11	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheep	conj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 week	advmod
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a whole sheep and sheep's supper			week		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was a calf and she was telling the truth about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 calf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calf	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 telling	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	aux
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 calf	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telling	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a calf					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	calf	the truth				about truth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, it was a real calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 calf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 calf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 calf	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 calf	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calf	amod
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was really a whole sheep for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sheep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sheep	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 sheep	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sheep	amod
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheep	conj

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

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