Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Ngl, was the lake dead deep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ngl					dead, deep 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

Yeah, it was Lake Elvyn and it was deep enough to swallow the twins

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Lake	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Lake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Lake	cop
5	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
6	Elvyn	Elvyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Lake	flat
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 deep	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deep	cop
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 deep	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 swallow	mark
13	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 deep	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 twins	det
15	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	Lake		tree rules
2	is	past	it		deep, enough property	tree rules
3	swallow	to-infinitive		the twins		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was Lake Elvyn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 Lake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Lake	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Lake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Lake	cop
5	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Elvyn	Elvyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Lake	flat

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

Option 3

Nah, it was a shallow pond near the cottage, not a proper lake at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 pond	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pond	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pond	det
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pond	amod
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 cottage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pond	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lake	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 lake	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lake	det
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lake	amod
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pond	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 lake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a shallow pond and a proper lake at all		the cottage			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, it was a small pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 pond	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pond	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pond	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pond	amod
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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