Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Was the old Pope still alive when he got picked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, pick · To what, where: old Pope

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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	4 Pope	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pope	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Pope	amod
4	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 picked	nsubj:pass
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Pope	amod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 picked	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 picked	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 picked	aux:pass
10	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old Pope					tree rules
2	pick	past · passive		the old Pope					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Yes, he was still alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				still	alive property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, but he was too ill to attend the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ill	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 ill	advmod
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attend	mark
9	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ill	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					ill property	tree rules
2	attend	to-infinitive	he not said here	the church					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Goal

Option 3

No, he had retired years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 retired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 retired	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 retired	aux
5	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 years	amod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past · perfect	he						vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the Pope had just died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pope	det
4	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 died	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
7	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the Pope						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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