Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

Was the inn fancy, or just a manky old shed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: inn fancy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fancy	det
3	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	compound
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shed	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 shed	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 shed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shed	det
9	manky	manky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shed	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shed	amod
11	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the inn fancy or a manky old shed					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

Pretty okay, with a small room, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 room	advmod
2	okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 room	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 room	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Proper fancy, with the best room, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fancy	amod
2	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 room	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj

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

Option 3

Nah, it was a manky old shed with no beds, mate, and rats

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 shed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shed	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shed	det
6	manky	manky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shed	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shed	amod
8	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 beds	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 beds	det
11	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shed	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beds	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rats	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rats	cc
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a manky old shed and rats				with no beds and mate	tree rules

Option 4

Proper fancy, with the best room and a dinner, mate, and free beer

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fancy	amod
2	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 room	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dinner	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dinner	det
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beer	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beer	cc
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beer	amod
16	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj

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

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