Test 6 · ★ · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

Was Liza a right little shrimp or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: right little shrimp

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» 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	6 shrimp	cop
2	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shrimp	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shrimp	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shrimp	amod
6	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 shrimp	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shrimp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a right little shrimp					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, she was quite big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tiny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tiny property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she was small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, she was tiny, but a proper little shrimp, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tiny	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tiny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shrimp	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 shrimp	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shrimp	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shrimp	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shrimp	amod
11	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shrimp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tiny property	tree rules

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