Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

Why were the goloshes dead handy, honest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goloshes · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 handy	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goloshes	det
4	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handy	nsubj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handy	amod
6	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handy	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 handy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the goloshes					handy property	tree rules
2	be		the goloshes not said here						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

Because the streets were still mucky and he did not want to get his boots dirty

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 mucky	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 streets	det
3	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mucky	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mucky	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 mucky	advmod
6	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 want	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mucky	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 boots	nmod:poss
15	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obj
16	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the streets		still	mucky property	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his boots		dirty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boot=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The streets were still mucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 streets	det
2	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mucky	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mucky	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 mucky	advmod
5	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the streets				still	mucky property	tree rules

Option 3

The streets were still mucky from the rain and the carts from the night before

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	2 streets	det
2	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mucky	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mucky	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 mucky	advmod
5	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mucky	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carts	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 carts	det
11	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rain	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mucky	obl
15	before	before	ADV	_	14 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the streets			the rain and the carts	still; night	mucky property	tree rules

Option 4

The roads were full of mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roads	det
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mud	case
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the roads					of mud; full property	tree rules

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