Test 5 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…

is the Sun like a friend or a snitch when she goes to his castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun, she · What happens: be, go · To what, where: castle

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 friend	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 snitch	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snitch	det
9	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	conj
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 goes	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 castle	nmod:poss
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goes	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun					like a friend or a snitch	tree rules
2	go	present	she			his castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

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

he's nice but a bit of a snitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nice	cop
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 bit	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nice	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 snitch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snitch	det
9	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

he's a snitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snitch	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snitch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snitch	det
4	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a snitch					tree rules

Option 3

he's chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chill	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chill	cop
3	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					chill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he's cool, knows her from before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cool	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cool	cop
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cool	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					cool property	tree rules
2	know	present	he not said here	her = she				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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