Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

No cap, was the wedding a proper big do or just a wee thing?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wedding	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wedding	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 do	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 do	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 do	amod
10	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wedding	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 thing	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 thing	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wedding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the wedding					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

Nobody came, it was just a quiet little ceremony in the chapel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ceremony	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ceremony	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ceremony	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 ceremony	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ceremony	det
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ceremony	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ceremony	amod
10	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 chapel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chapel	det
13	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ceremony	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Nobody						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	it	a quiet little ceremony		the chapel			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was huge, with a feast and dancing in the hall for three days

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	3 huge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feast	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 huge	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dancing	cc
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dancing	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					with a feast for three days and dancing in the hall; huge property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was big, the bells were going

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	3 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 big	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					big property	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	the bells						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It was small and quiet

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	3 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 quiet	cc
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj

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

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