Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

Wait, why was the dog's stare so mental?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: stare

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stare	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stare	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stare	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stare	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dog	case
8	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 mental	advmod
10	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the dog's stare					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

Cos it was ever so tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 tired	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 tired	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos its eyes were like saucers, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 saucers	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saucers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saucers	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 saucers	case
6	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saucers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its eyes					like saucers and innit	tree rules

Option 3

Cos its eyes were like saucers and it was guarding the copper chest, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 saucers	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saucers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saucers	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 saucers	case
6	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 guarding	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guarding	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guarding	aux
10	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saucers	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chest	det
12	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chest	compound
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guarding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its eyes					like saucers	tree rules
2	guard	past · progressive	it	the copper chest and innit					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Beneficiary

Option 4

Cos its eyes were huge like mill-wheels and it had been up all night, bruv

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 huge	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 huge	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 wheels	case
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheels	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 mill	punct
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 huge	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 night	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 night	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 night	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 night	cop
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 been	compound:prt
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 huge	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its eyes					like mill wheels; huge property	tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	it	all night and bruv					tree rules

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