Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

so the golden shoes thing was just a dream, was it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shoes thing · What happens: be · To what, where: dream

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 dream	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dream	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dream	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 dream	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dream	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dream	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dream	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dream	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	shoes thing	a dream					tree rules
2	is a	past		dream					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the horse was dying in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dying	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dying	aux
6	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	the horse					in it	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Attribute

Option 2

nah, the shoes were real gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 gold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gold	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gold	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gold	amod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the shoes	real gold					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the scholar was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scholar	det
4	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the scholar					asleep property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, the golden shoes were real and the horse was dying in the palace stables

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 real	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 real	cop
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dying	aux
12	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 real	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 stables	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stables	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stables	compound
16	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the golden shoes					real property	tree rules
2	die	past · progressive	the horse					in the palace stables	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in stable=Attribute

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