Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

did the king's son's hymn sound mint or proper rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: sound mint

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mint	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 son	case
7	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	compound
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mint	compound
9	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 rubbish	cc
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rubbish	amod
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mint	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king's son's sound mint or proper rubbish					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mint=Eventuality

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 was a calm evening hymn sung to the sea

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	6 hymn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hymn	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hymn	det
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hymn	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hymn	compound
6	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hymn	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a calm evening hymn					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	participle		a calm evening hymn not said here	the sea				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sea=Recipient

Option 2

it was a sad hymn about the sea

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	5 hymn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hymn	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hymn	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hymn	amod
5	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hymn	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sad hymn				about the sea	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it was a calm evening hymn

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	6 hymn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hymn	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hymn	det
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hymn	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hymn	compound
6	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a calm evening hymn					tree rules

Option 4

it was a loud wild song that woke the whole village

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	6 song	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 song	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 woke	nsubj
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 song	acl:relcl
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	8 woke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a loud wild song					tree rules
2	wake	past	a loud wild song	the whole village					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent village=Patient

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