Test 7 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

was the stall actually clean when the old man came in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: be, come in · To what, where: stall

This is test 7 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stall	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stall	det
3	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 clean	advmod
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clean	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stall					tree rules
2	come in	past	the old man						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yeah, it was cleaner than a new pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cleaner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cleaner	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cleaner	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaner	cop
5	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 pin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pin	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pin	amod
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaner	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than a new pin; clean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it was filthy, but the prince had scrubbed the walls and the floor with his own hands yesterday

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 filthy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 filthy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 filthy	cop
5	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scrubbed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 scrubbed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scrubbed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scrubbed	aux
11	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 filthy	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scrubbed	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 floor	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walls	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walls	nmod
21	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scrubbed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					filthy property	tree rules
2	scrub	past · perfect · passive		the prince			yesterday		tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, it was spotless and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 spotless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spotless	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spotless	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spotless	cop
5	spotless	spotless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bright	cc
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spotless	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, it was cleaner than a new pin, cleaned out by the prince before the sun rose

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cleaner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cleaner	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cleaner	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaner	cop
5	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 cleaned	nsubj:pass
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 pin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pin	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pin	amod
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaner	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cleaned	punct
11	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 cleaned	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 prince	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cleaned	obl
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 rose	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rose	nsubj
19	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cleaned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		than a new pin; clean property	tree rules
2	clean out	participle · passive	the prince	cleaner		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	rise	past	the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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