Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

was the beetle's ship just a busted old clog, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bust · To what, where: ship

This is test 4 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ship	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ship	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 beetle	case
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clog	csubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 clog	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clog	det
8	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 clog	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clog	amod
10	clog	clog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clog	amod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 clog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the beetle's ship					tree rules
2	bust	participle							vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, a rotten wooden plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 plank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plank	det
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plank	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plank	amod
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, a sturdy metal bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bucket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
4	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bucket	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bucket	compound
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, a knackered wooden shoe that had been tossed in the ditch by a farmer years ago

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 shoe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shoe	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shoe	det
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shoe	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoe	amod
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tossed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tossed	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 tossed	aux:pass
10	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shoe	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ditch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ditch	det
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tossed	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 years	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 years	compound
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tossed	obl
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	participle							tree rules
2	toss	past · perfect · passive		a knackered wooden shoe		the ditch	year		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in ditch=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a knackered wooden shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 shoe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shoe	det
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shoe	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoe	amod
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	participle							tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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