Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

so Sophy was a proper good mate, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sophy · What happens: be · To what, where: proper good mate

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 Sophy	advmod
2	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mate	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mate	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mate	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 mate	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sophy	a proper good mate					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

nah, she was clever but quite boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 boring	cc
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 boring	advmod
8	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					clever property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she was kind and loyal to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loyal	cc
7	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					to everyone; kind property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 3

yeah, faithful and generous and clever and kind and the best friend anyone could ever have

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 faithful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 faithful	punct
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 generous	cc
5	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faithful	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clever	cc
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faithful	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faithful	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 anyone	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anyone	compound
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 have	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faithful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	could	anyone				ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, faithful and generous and clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 faithful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 faithful	punct
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 generous	cc
5	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faithful	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clever	cc
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faithful	conj

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

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