Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Was the lace thing a proper dodgy move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lace thing

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 move	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
8	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the lace thing					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

Nah, it was just a bit of silk, nothing really dodgy at all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 bit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 silk	case
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 bit	appos
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 dodgy	advmod
13	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 dodgy	obl

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

Option 2

Nah, it was fine, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						mate vocative; fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it nearly killed Snowdrop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 killed	advmod
5	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	it	Snowdrop				nearly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it nearly fed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 fed	advmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	it		her = she			nearly property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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