Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Was the castle actually made of copper, or what?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 179 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident in the cave, then a lonely walk to a copper castle» 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 castle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 copper	case
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the castle					tree rules
2	make	participle · passive		the castle				of copper; actually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 all red copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 copper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 copper	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 copper	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 red	advmod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 copper	amod
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	red copper					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it was all red brick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 brick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brick	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 red	advmod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brick	amod
7	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	red brick					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was made of gold plates, not copper, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 plates	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plates	compound
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 copper	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 copper	advmod
11	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honest	punct
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 copper	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		it				of gold plates; copper obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Yeah, it was pure white marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	pure white marble					tree rules

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