Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

was the golden castle thing even possible in an hour?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: golden castle thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	5 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 possible	advmod
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possible	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

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

no way, it was impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impossible	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no way					impossible property	tree rules

Option 2

sure, it was easy enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 easy	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	cop
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sure	ccomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 easy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						easy, enough property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no way, it was impossible without the magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impossible	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 magic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magic	det
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no way					without the magic; impossible property	tree rules

Option 4

no way, it was impossible for any human to do that in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impossible	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 human	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 human	det
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 impossible	csubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 human	xcomp
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 do	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no way					impossible property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	no way not said here	that			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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