Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

Was Donald's place in a fancy town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: place, fancy town

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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 place	cop
2	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 place	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Donald	case
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Donald's place		a fancy town			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

Nah, it was just a cold dirty little hovel by the side of a muddy road far out of town

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 hovel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hovel	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hovel	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 hovel	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hovel	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hovel	amod
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hovel	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hovel	amod
10	hovel	hovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hovel	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 road	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 road	det
16	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 road	amod
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 side	nmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 town	advmod
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 town	case
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hovel	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a cold dirty little hovel		town		by the side of a muddy road	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, a small wooden cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cottage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, it was a tiny crumbling cottage out on the edge of the bog

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 cottage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cottage	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cottage	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cottage	amod
7	crumbling	crumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cottage	compound
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cottage	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 edge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 edge	det
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cottage	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bog	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bog	det
15	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a tiny crumbling cottage		the edge of the bog			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, just a rubbish little hovel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hovel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 hovel	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hovel	det
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hovel	compound
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hovel	amod
7	hovel	hovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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