Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

Who was the head clerk, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: head clerk

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 clerk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clerk	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clerk	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clerk	compound
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 then	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 clerk	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clerk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the head clerk			then		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 short one, and he was grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grumpy	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grumpy	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grumpy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grumpy	cop
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	conj

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

Option 2

Some bloke with a long beard, and he was dead rude to Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 beard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beard	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beard	amod
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rude	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rude	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rude	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rude	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rude	amod
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bloke	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Jack	case
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		Jack			rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The old one, and he was the worst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worst	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 worst	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worst	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 worst	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worst	det
9	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	appos

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

Option 4

The old one, and he was the worst of the whole lot of them, mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mate	nmod:poss
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worst	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 worst	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worst	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 worst	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worst	det
9	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 lot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lot	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lot	amod
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worst	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lot	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the whole lot of them; bad property	tree rules

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