Test 3 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

so what was the horse's whole deal, fr?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 horse	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the horse's whole deal and fr					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

It was the master's old mare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mare	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mare	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mare	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 master	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mare	amod
7	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the master's old mare					tree rules

Option 2

It was his brother's horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 brother	case
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					's his brother	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was the old man's grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grandmother	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the old man's grandmother					tree rules

Option 4

It was the old man's grandmother, and it wanted hay all day long, fr

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grandmother	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grandmother	acl:relcl
12	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 wanted	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fr	punct
17	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grandmother	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the old man's grandmother and fr					tree rules
2	want	past	it	hay			day	long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hay=Theme

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