Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

okay so Lina's boat was always behind, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boat · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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	okay	okay	INTJ	_	8 behind	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 behind	advmod
3	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lina	case
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 behind	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 behind	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 behind	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 behind	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 behind	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 behind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lina's boat					always, behind property	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, it was heavier, the oars dragged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 heavier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oars	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oars	det
8	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavier	obl
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 oars	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					the oars obl; heavy property	tree rules
2	drag	participle		the oars not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was heavier than the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 heavier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than the rest; heavy property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, it was lighter than the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lighter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lighter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighter	cop
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than the rest; light property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, it was slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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