Test 7 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…

so was the treasure hall shiny or not?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: treasure hall · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 688 «German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings home a barrel of gold and meets a sad young lover» 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	_	6 shiny	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shiny	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hall	compound
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shiny	nsubj
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 not	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 shiny	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the treasure hall					shiny 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 · ← Mova's choice

no, dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

yes, very shiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 shiny	advmod
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no clue, he didn't check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 clue	det
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clue	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 check	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 check	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 check	advmod
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clue	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not check	past · do-support	he	no clue not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme

Option 4

yes, it was all golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 golden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 golden	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 golden	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 golden	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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