Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

lol the beetle said the world was abominable, what's that mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetle, world, that · What happens: say, be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abominable	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 abominable	cop
8	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 mean	obj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 mean	nsubj
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 abominable	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the beetle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the world	abominable property	tree rules
3	mean	present	that		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

it means kind of gross and sad

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gross	case
5	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sad	cc
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	kind of gross					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic

Option 2

it means really horrible and rotten, like the whole world was a big mess to him

The tree, 16 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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 horrible	advmod
4	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rotten	cc
6	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horrible	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mess	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	15 mess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mess	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mess	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mess	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mess	amod
15	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mess	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					horrible property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the whole world		him = he			like a big mess	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it means really horrible and rotten

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 horrible	advmod
4	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rotten	cc
6	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horrible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					horrible property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

it means really nice and clean

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clean	cc
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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