Test 11 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Was the cottage proper grotty, like?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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	5 grotty	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cottage	det
3	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grotty	nsubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 grotty	advmod
5	grotty	grotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	5 grotty	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grotty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cottage					grotty, properly 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, dirty and tumble-down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dirty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tumble	cc
5	tumble	tumble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dirty	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 down	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 tumble	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dirty	imperative	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tumble	infinitive	you not said here					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Nah, clean and well-kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 kept	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle						well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, dirty and tumble-down, with a leaking roof and rats everywhere

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dirty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dirty	punct
3	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tumble	cc
5	tumble	tumble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dirty	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 down	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 tumble	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roof	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 roof	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 roof	det
11	leaking	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 roof	amod
12	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dirty	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rats	cc
14	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roof	conj
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 dirty	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dirty	imperative	you not said here	with a leaking roof and rats; everywhere property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with roof=Instrument
2	tumble	infinitive	you not said here	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	leak	gerund			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was a grand little house with a fine garden and a stone wall

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 house	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 house	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 house	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 garden	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 garden	det
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 garden	amod
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wall	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wall	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wall	compound
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 garden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a grand little house				with a fine garden and a stone wall	tree rules

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