Test 12 · ★ · Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house i…

was there a garret or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» 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	2 there	cop
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garret	det
4	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 there	obl:unmarked
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nah	cc
6	nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 there	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						a garret obl:unmarked; there 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, there was a small attic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 attic	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attic	amod
7	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a small attic			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, a garret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 garret	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garret	det
4	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the house had no garret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 garret	det
7	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the house	no garret					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garret=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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