Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

does the old house have, like, a proper garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old house · What happens: have

This is test 12 · ★ 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 garden	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	11 garden	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 garden	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garden	amod
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	the old house						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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, no garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a balcony covered in green stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 balcony	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 balcony	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 balcony	det
4	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 balcony	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a balcony not said here				in green stuff	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stuff=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, a wooden fence around some grey soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fence	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fence	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fence	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fence	amod
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	9 soil	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 soil	det
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soil	amod
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fence	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, a pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pond	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pond	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pond	det
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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