Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…

So was the tale worth the walk, or what?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 worth	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	nsubj
5	worth	worth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walk	det
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 worth	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tale					worth 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

Nah, it made the road longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	the road				long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material road=Product

Option 2

Nah, it was dead 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	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dull	amod
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 property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it shortened the whole road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shorten	past	it	the whole road					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it was just a rubbish story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 story	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 story	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 story	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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