Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…

Was the castle a big fancy palace or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: castle

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» 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	3 castle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 palace	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 palace	amod
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 palace	amod
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 palace	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 palace	punct

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

Yeah, it were enormous, with marble halls and gold, but really just an ordinary house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 enormous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 enormous	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enormous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enormous	cop
5	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 halls	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 halls	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 halls	compound
9	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enormous	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 halls	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 house	cc
14	really	really	ADV	_	18 house	advmod
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 house	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enormous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					with marble halls and gold; enormous property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it were just an ordinary house, though the rooms inside were very grand

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 house	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 grand	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rooms	det
12	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grand	nsubj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 rooms	advmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grand	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 grand	advmod
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a ordinary house					tree rules
2	is	past	the rooms					grand property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it were just an ordinary house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 house	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, a tidy little cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cottage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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