Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

fr the grocer's till was talking about art and drama, was that real or fake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr till · What happens: talk, be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 till	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grocer	det
3	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 till	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grocer	case
5	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talking	aux
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 art	case
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drama	cc
11	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 art	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 real	mark
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talking	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fake	cc
17	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 real	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the grocer's fr till	about art and drama	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about art=Topic
2	is	past		real property	tree rules
3	be				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

it was the till

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 till	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 till	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 till	det
4	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was the tub, not the till

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tub	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tub	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tub	det
4	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 till	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 till	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 till	det
8	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tub	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the tub and the till					tree rules

Option 3

it was the cat, not the tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tub	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tub	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tub	det
8	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the cat and the tub					tree rules

Option 4

it was the maid, all fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 maid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 maid	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fake	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fake	det
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maid	amod

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

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