Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

so the cherry tree was like a wicked huge tree, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cherry tree · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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	_	10 tree	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tree	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 tree	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cherry tree					like a wicked huge tree	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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was a small one, the only one around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	appos
12	around	around	ADV	_	11 one	advmod

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

Option 2

nah, it was a small one, the only cherry tree around the whole garden

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tree	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
13	around	around	ADP	_	16 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 garden	amod
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a small one				the only cherry tree around the whole garden nmod	tree rules

Option 3

nah, it was a small one, a young cherry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cherry	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cherry	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cherry	amod
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a small one and a young cherry					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was a wicked huge tree that towered over the whole garden and the house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tree	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 towered	nsubj
10	towered	tower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	acl:relcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 garden	amod
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 towered	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 house	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 garden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a wicked huge tree					tree rules
2	tower	past	a wicked huge tree			the whole garden and the house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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