Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Mate, wasn't Thumb's brilliant plan with the pebbles dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: brilliant plan

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 plan	advmod
5	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Thumb	case
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pebbles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pebbles	det
11	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dodgy	obl
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		Thumb's brilliant plan				Mate vocative; dodgy nmod	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the door was locked and the pebbles were all swept away by the wind

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 locked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swept	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pebbles	det
9	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swept	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swept	aux:pass
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 swept	advmod
12	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 locked	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 swept	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sweep away	past · passive	the wind	the pebbles				all, away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the door was locked, so pebbles were no good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 locked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
9	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 good	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 good	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 locked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	pebbles					good property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the pebbles were fine but the birds ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pebbles	det
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pebbles					fine property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the birds	pebbles = pebble					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, the pebbles were great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 great	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pebbles	det
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 great	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	cop
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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