Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

who was the best helper then, the mouse or the frog?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 helper	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 helper	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 helper	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 helper	amod
5	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 helper	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mouse	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helper	parataxis
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 frog	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 frog	det
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mouse	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 helper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the best helper			then		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

The frog, he was really useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useful	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 frog	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 useful	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useful	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 useful	advmod
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

The mouse, he did the most work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mouse	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 work	advmod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the mouse	the work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both, they were both proper useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 useful	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 useful	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useful	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	7 useful	advmod
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 useful	amod
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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