Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

Was the Wee Bear's chair totally trashed, like?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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	6 chair	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
3	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chair	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Bear	case
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trashed	nsubj:pass
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 trashed	advmod
8	trashed	trash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 trashed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 trashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wee Bear's chair					tree rules
2	trash	participle · passive		the Wee Bear's chair				totally property	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, the back was just bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bent	aux:pass
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 bent	advmod
7	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past · passive		the back					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, the bottom was sat out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	aux:pass
6	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit out	past · passive		the bottom					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

no, it was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yes, the seat was torn off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 torn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seat	det
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 torn	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 torn	aux:pass
6	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 torn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear off	past · passive		the seat					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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