Test 11 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

Was there stuff on that ship that could blow up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stuff · What happens: be · To what, where: ship

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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	9 blow	cop
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 blow	expl
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blow	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ship	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blow	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 blow	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 blow	aux
9	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 blow	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	stuff			that ship; there		blow 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, there was powder down there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
5	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, gunpowder was in the hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hold	det
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	gunpowder			the hold			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, there was powder down there in the hold, enough to blow it all up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
5	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hold	det
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enough	punct
12	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hold	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 blow	mark
14	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 enough	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blow	obj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	14 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the hold		down, there property	tree rules
2	blow	to-infinitive		powder					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, there was loads of powder down there and cannon balls, all ready to blow

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 powder	case
7	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	nmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 balls	cc
11	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 balls	compound
12	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 there	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ready	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 ready	advmod
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 balls	amod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 blow	mark
17	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cannon balls obl; down, there property	tree rules
2	blow	to-infinitive							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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