Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

Her fourth finger was dead special, wasn't it? What did it look like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fourth finger, finger · What happens: be, not be, look · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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

Sentence 1: Her fourth finger was dead special, wasn't it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 finger	nmod:poss
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 special	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 special	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 special	amod
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 special	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 it	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 special	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 special	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her fourth finger					special property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		it					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.

Sentence 2: What did it look like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	obl
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 look	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	finger						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Like it could tell the future and knew all the secrets of the goblin's wedding, bruv

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	4 tell	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bruv	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 future	det
6	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knew	cc
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 secrets	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 secrets	det
11	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 wedding	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goblin	det
14	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wedding	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 goblin	case
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secrets	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	it	the future	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Recipient
2	know	past		all secrets of the goblin's wedding	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
3	wed		the goblin		nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Like it knew about the wedding before anyone else in the whole hill, fam

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 knew	obl
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 anyone	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hill	amod
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fam	punct
15	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	it			the whole hill and fam	before anyone	about the wedding	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about wedding=Stimulus

Option 3

Like a ring with a red stone, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 ring	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Like it knew about the wedding, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wedding	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	it					about the wedding and fam	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about wedding=Stimulus

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