Test 12 · ★ · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples…

What was the best bit of the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: best bit · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 680 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples at the palace, and the royal noses grow.» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the best bit of the wedding						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 huge feast with roast pig, sweets, and barrels of wine that everyone ate until late

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ate	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pig	case
5	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pig	compound
6	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sweets	punct
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pig	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 barrels	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 barrels	cc
11	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wine	case
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barrels	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 everyone	det
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 ate	nsubj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	until	until	ADP	_	18 late	case
18	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the huge feast with roast pig and sweets						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tiidu playing pipes at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Tiidu	acl
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 playing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	Tiidu not said here	pipes			at the end		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme

Option 3

The moment the king stood up and danced with the bride at the very end of the party

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stood	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 danced	cc
8	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stood	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 bride	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bride	det
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danced	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 end	advmod
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danced	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 party	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 party	det
18	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the moment						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	participle	the moment not said here				at the end of the party	with the bride	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location

Option 4

The music and the big dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 music	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dinner	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinner	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinner	amod
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 music	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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