Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

that almshouse looks dead boring, like a dungeon

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: almshouse · What happens: look

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 almshouse	det
2	almshouse	almshouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boring	amod
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dungeon	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dungeon	det
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	that almshouse					like a dungeon; boring property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

ya but the old maid's window has balsams, and it's kinda cool

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	X	Foreign=Yes	8 has	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 window	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 maid	case
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ya	conj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	balsams	balsam	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cool	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cool	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cool	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cool	cop
14	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	15 cool	advmod
15	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ya but the old maid's window	balsams					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balsam=Patient
2	is	present	window					cool, kinda property	tree rules

Option 2

ya but the old maid has flowers, kinda cute tho

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	X	Foreign=Yes	6 has	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 has	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tho	punct
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	10 cute	advmod
10	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tho	amod
11	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ya	flowers and cute tho					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

Option 3

nah the old lady has balsams and it's kinda sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 has	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	balsams	balsam	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sad	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sad	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sad	cop
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old lady	balsams					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balsam=Patient
2	is	present	it					kinda, sad property	tree rules

Option 4

ya but the old maid's window has balsams and a dead leaf, and she plucks it, which is kinda sad and cool at once

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	X	Foreign=Yes	8 has	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 window	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 maid	case
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ya	conj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	balsams	balsam	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaf	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 leaf	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaf	amod
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 balsams	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plucks	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plucks	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plucks	nsubj
17	plucks	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plucks	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sad	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sad	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sad	cop
22	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	23 sad	advmod
23	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 plucks	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cool	cc
25	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sad	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	ya but the old maid's window	balsams and a dead leaf		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balsam=Patient
2	pluck	present	maid	leaf		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	present			kinda, sad property	tree rules
4	be					tree rules

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