Test 6 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

What's the big deal with George's cap, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: big deal · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cap	case
7	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cap	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 George	case
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the big deal with George's cap and mate						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 · ✓ the right answer

It was his dad's sealskin cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cap	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cap	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dad	case
6	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	compound
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	his dad's sealskin cap					tree rules

Option 2

Nothing special, it was just a cap from the big ship his dad had sailed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cap	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cap	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 cap	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ship	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ship	amod
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cap	nmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sailed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sailed	aux
16	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a cap		the big ship			tree rules
2	sail	past · perfect	his dad						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's his dad's old sealskin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sealskin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sealskin	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sealskin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dad	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sealskin	amod
7	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	his dad's old sealskin					tree rules

Option 4

The dwarfs wanted it because it was his father's cap and they hated it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarfs	det
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 cap	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 his	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 his	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cap	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hated	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hated	nsubj
14	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the dwarfs	it	because his father's cap	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	is a	past	it	his = he		tree rules
3	hate	past	dwarfs = dwarf	cap		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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