Test 12 · ★ · pg641, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 29: Florea meets a thre…

Be real, was Costan the tall one?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1778 «pg641, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 29: Florea meets a three-headed dragon at the bridge» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Costan	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Costan	cop
5	Costan	Costan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		real Costan					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

no, he was tall but weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 tall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 weak	cc
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tall property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no, he was small but strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 strong	cc
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					small property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3

yes, he was very tall and strong, like Florea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strong	cc
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tall	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Florea	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 Florea	case
11	Florea	Florea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					like Florea; tall property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

yes, he was tall and thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tall property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

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