Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed fo…

So was it dead boring up in that lumber-room, then?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: lumber room

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1629 «Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed for Christmas, hears a story, and is then shut away in a dark loft» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 boring	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boring	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boring	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boring	amod
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 boring	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 room	det
9	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lumber	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boring	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 room	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 boring	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			that lumber room	then	boring 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 · ✓ the right answer

"Yeah, days and nights went by and no one came, mate."

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
2	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 days	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	vocative
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go by in a quote	past	days and nights						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	past	no one					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

"Yeah, weeks went by, nobody came, mate."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
2	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 weeks	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yeah	punct
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	vocative
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go by in a quote	past	weeks						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	past	nobody					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"Nah, it was alright, cos the mice came to visit every night and told it stories, bruv, innit."

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 alright	punct
2	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 alright	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nah	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alright	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alright	cop
6	alright	alright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cos	punct
8	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alright	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mice	det
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cos	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 visit	mark
13	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	xcomp
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 visit	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	obj
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bruv	punct
21	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stories	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 innit	punct
23	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stories	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 alright	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 alright	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	it				alright property	tree rules
2	co in a quote	present						tree rules
3	come in a quote	past	the mice					tree rules
4	visit in a quote	to-infinitive	the mice not said here			night		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the mice not said here	stories and bruv and innit	it			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient story=Topic

Option 4

"Yeah, days and nights went by in the dark, and no one came near it at all, mate."

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
2	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 days	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 dark	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
17	near	near	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mate	punct
22	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	vocative
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	days and nights					by the dark	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dark=Location
2	come in a quote	past	no one			dark		at all; mate vocative	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location

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