Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Was the burning coach thing real or just in her head, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: burn, be, innit · To what, where: burning coach thing

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 794 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees a ghostly child and digs a grave by the sea before dawn» 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	5 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
3	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thing	amod
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 head	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 head	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	burn	gerund		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the burning coach thing	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive		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

It was real, the old lord drove by her on the road

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 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drove	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lord	amod
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drove	nsubj
8	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	parataxis
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					real property	tree rules
2	drive	past	the old lord			the road		by her = she	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent by she=Destination on road=Initial_Location

Option 2

A real coach, honestly, on the old road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coach	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coach	amod
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honestly	punct
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 coach	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 road	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coach	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her head, it was a scary vision of a dead lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vision	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 head	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 vision	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 vision	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vision	det
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vision	amod
8	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 lord	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lord	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lord	amod
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vision	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Her head	a scary vision				of a dead lord	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A real coach with flames, seen by the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coach	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coach	amod
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 flames	case
5	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coach	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coach	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	participle		a real coach with flames not said here				by the whole village	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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