Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Did the pear tree have pears in winter, or was that fake news?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pear tree · What happens: have, be · To what, where: pears, fake news

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tree	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 news	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 news	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 news	cop
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 news	det
13	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 news	amod
14	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the pear tree	pears			winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient
2	is a	past		that fake news					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

It had pears all year round, mate

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	pears			year	mate vocative; round property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient

Option 2

It had pears all year round, and the king checked them in January, mate

The tree, 14 words

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 checked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 checked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 checked	nsubj
11	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 checked	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 January	case
14	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 checked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 January	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	pears			year	round property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient
2	check	past	the king	pears = pear			january		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

It had no pears in winter, mate

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 pears	det
4	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no pears			winter	mate vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It bore apples all year, mate

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	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bore	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bore	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bore	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	It	apples			year	mate vocative	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

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