Test 12 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Dude, what was the hot drink like, was it tea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: hot drink, tea

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tea	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drink	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 drink	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drink	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drink	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drink	amod
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	7 drink	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tea	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tea	nsubj
12	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 tea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude and the hot drink	the hot drink					tree rules
2	is a	past	Dude and the hot drink	tea					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

It was hot chocolate with cream and honey, served in a big wooden cup by the stranger

The tree, 17 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	4 chocolate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chocolate	cop
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chocolate	amod
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cream	case
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chocolate	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 honey	cc
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 served	punct
10	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 chocolate	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 cup	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cup	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cup	amod
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cup	amod
15	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 stranger	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	hot chocolate				with cream and honey	tree rules
2	serve	participle						by the stranger; in a big wooden cup	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in cup=Attribute

Option 2

It says it was a hot brew

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	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brew	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brew	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brew	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brew	amod
7	brew	brew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a hot brew					tree rules

Option 3

It was some hot cocoa, I think

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	5 cocoa	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cocoa	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 cocoa	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cocoa	amod
5	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cocoa	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	some hot cocoa					tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It just says a hot drink

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	3 says	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drink	amod
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It	a hot drink					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drink=Topic

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