Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

was the wood all gloomy and dead or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wood

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	3 wood	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gloomy	csubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gloomy	advmod
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dead	cc
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gloomy	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 gloomy	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gloomy	punct

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

Nah, it had lilies, tulips and apple trees, and the apes were singing in the sun

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tulips	punct
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lilies	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trees	cc
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lilies	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 singing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 singing	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apes	det
14	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 singing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 singing	aux
16	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 sun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	lilies and tulips and apple trees					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the apes			the sun			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it had lilies, tulips and apple trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tulips	punct
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lilies	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trees	cc
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lilies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	lilies and tulips and apple trees					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was gloomy, with dead lilies and grey tulips under apple trees by the sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gloomy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gloomy	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gloomy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	cop
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lilies	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 lilies	case
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lilies	amod
9	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gloomy	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tulips	cc
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tulips	amod
12	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lilies	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trees	compound
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lilies	nmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gloomy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					with dead lilies under apple trees and grey tulips; by the sea; gloomy property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it had oaks and pine trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trees	cc
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 oaks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	oaks and pine trees					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient

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