Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

What did the watchman reckon about that night, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: watchman · What happens: reckon

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watchman	det
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the watchman				night		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

It was the most dreadful night ever

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 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 dreadful	advmod
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the dreadful night			ever		tree rules

Option 2

It was the most dreadful night ever and he will never forget it

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 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 dreadful	advmod
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 night	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forget	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forget	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 forget	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 forget	advmod
12	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 night	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the dreadful night			ever		tree rules
2	not forget	future	he	it					tree rules

Option 3

It was a wild and windy night

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	7 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 windy	cc
6	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wild	conj
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a wild night					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He reckoned it was the most dreadful night of his entire working life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 night	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 night	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 dreadful	advmod
7	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
11	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
12	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 life	compound
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the dreadful night				of his entire working life	tree rules

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