Test 4 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Pete…

was that ring just a normal ring then

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: ring

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 706 «Brown Fairy Book, Peter and the Golden-haired Maiden: Peter calls his dogs and wins back the girl» 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 ring	cop
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	csubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 ring	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that ring					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah it was a proper magic ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 ring	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper magic ring					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah it was a fancy ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ring	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah it was a proper magic ring that changed things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 ring	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 changed	nsubj
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	acl:relcl
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper magic ring					tree rules
2	change	past	a proper magic ring	things					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 4

Nah it was a plain old ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 ring	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a plain old ring					tree rules

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