Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watc…
were the maids in that tavern weird or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maids · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 838 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant» 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 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weird | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maids | det |
| 3 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tavern | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tavern | det |
| 6 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maids | nmod |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nah | cc |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 weird | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the maids in that tavern | weird property | 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
Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy, always whispering and watching the guests closely
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 creepy | cc |
| 7 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 8 creepy | advmod |
| 8 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rough | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispering | punct |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 whispering | advmod |
| 11 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rough | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watching | cc |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 whispering | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guests | det |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 watching | obj |
| 16 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 13 watching | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | kinda property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | always property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the guests | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, they were polite and very quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 polite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | cop |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quiet | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 polite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy, and one of them even tried to steal the goloshes
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 creepy | cc |
| 7 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 8 creepy | advmod |
| 8 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rough | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 tried | advmod |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 steal | mark |
| 17 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goloshes | det |
| 19 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | kinda property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | past | one of them | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of them not said here | the goloshes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location golosh=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 creepy | cc |
| 7 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 8 creepy | advmod |
| 8 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rough | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | kinda property | tree rules |
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