Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

wait, the house across the street was dead quiet, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, street · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: house

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 house	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	across	across	ADP	_	10 quiet	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quiet	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 quiet	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quiet	amod
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the house					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the street					quiet 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

nah, it was loud and the music was blasting through the walls all night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blasting	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 music	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blasting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blasting	aux
10	blasting	blast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 loud	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 walls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blasting	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blasting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					loud property	tree rules
2	blast	past · progressive	the music			the walls	night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, but the flowers were still blooming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 blooming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blooming	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 blooming	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blooming	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blooming	aux
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 blooming	advmod
8	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	past · progressive	the flowers				still		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the windows were full of noisy people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windows	det
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the windows					of noisy people; full property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, quiet as a tomb, and the flowers had all withered away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 tomb	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tomb	det
6	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quiet	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 withered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 withered	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 withered	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 withered	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 withered	advmod
13	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quiet	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 withered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wither away	past · perfect · passive		the flowers				all, away property	tree rules

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