Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…

Was the island full of people, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: island

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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	3 island	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 island	det
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	3 island	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 island	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the island					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

Nah, it was empty and quiet, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 empty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quiet	cc
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 empty	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mostly	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 empty	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was bare and deserted, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deserted	cc
7	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bare	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mostly	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 bare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bare, mostly property	tree rules
2	desert	participle							vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was packed with people and a huge market, proper busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 packed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 packed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 packed	aux:pass
5	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 packed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 market	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 market	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 market	amod
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 busy	punct
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 busy	advmod
14	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 packed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	past · passive		it				with people and a huge market	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it was bare and deserted, mostly, though a few ships were docked by the shore

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deserted	cc
7	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bare	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mostly	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 deserted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 docked	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 docked	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ships	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ships	amod
14	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 docked	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 docked	aux:pass
16	docked	dock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bare	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 shore	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shore	det
19	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 docked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		bare property	tree rules
2	desert	participle			mostly property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dock	past · passive	the shore	a few ships		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination

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