Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Was the hall wee and cramped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hall · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	4 wee	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hall	det
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wee	nsubj
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cramped	cc
6	cramped	cramped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wee	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wee	punct

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

Naw, tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Naw, it's bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bright	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Naw	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	Naw not said here				bright property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Naw, it's massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 massive	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	cop
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Naw	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	Naw not said here				massive property	tree rules

Option 4

Aye, it's wee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 wee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wee	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wee	cop
5	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wee property	tree rules

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