Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

Was the wedding a bit rubbish, or was it sick?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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 wedding	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbish	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbish	compound
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sick	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rubbish	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rubbish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wedding					tree rules
2	is	past	rubbish					sick 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 · ← Mova's choice

Sick, loads of food and wine, plus a huge dance that went on for days

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wine	cc
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dance	punct
9	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	12 dance	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dance	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dance	amod
12	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dance	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	a huge dance				day		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Rubbish, only bread and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bread	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bread	advmod
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rubbish	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rubbish	conj

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

Option 3

Sick, loads of music and dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 music	case
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dancing	cc
7	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 music	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sick, loads of food and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wine	cc
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj

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

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