Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…

honestly the storm was the worst luck ever

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storm · What happens: be · To what, where: worst luck

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 storm	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 luck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 luck	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 luck	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 luck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the storm	the worst luck			ever		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

fr, if it hadn't stormed he'd never got caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stormed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stormed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stormed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stormed	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stormed	advmod
7	stormed	storm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 fr	acl:relcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stormed	obj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not storm a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	fr not said here	fr	tree rules
2	not get	past · perfect	fr		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	catch	participle	fr not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

fr, if it hadn't stormed he would have walked out of the room unseen like always and kept his gold

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stormed	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stormed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stormed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stormed	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stormed	advmod
7	stormed	storm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 walked	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 walked	aux
11	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 stormed	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 room	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl
16	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 room	amod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 always	case
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 unseen	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stormed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gold	nmod:poss
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not storm	past · perfect · passive		fr	tree rules
2	walk out	would · perfect	he	the room	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Attribute
3	keep	past		his gold	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 3

yeah but the belt was the real problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 problem	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 problem	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 belt	det
4	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 problem	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 problem	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 problem	amod
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

for real, the storm was the worst luck but also the boy shouldn't have gone in without thinking

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 real	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 luck	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 luck	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 luck	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 luck	det
8	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 luck	amod
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 gone	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 luck	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 thinking	mark
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 gone	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the storm	the worst luck	for real	tree rules
2	not go in	should · perfect	the boy			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	the boy not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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