Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…

Was the carbuncle mad shiny in that hall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: carbuncle · What happens: be · To what, where: hall

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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	5 shiny	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 carbuncle	det
3	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shiny	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shiny	amod
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shiny	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the carbuncle			that hall		shiny 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it lit the whole hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	it	the whole hall					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Product

Option 2

Nah, it was dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Yeah, it glowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 glowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glowed	nsubj
4	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it was pretty dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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