Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Proper harsh, but what did the mayor's footman reckon about the dinner?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 harsh	advmod
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reckon	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 reckon	cc
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 reckon	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reckon	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mayor	det
8	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 footman	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mayor	case
10	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reckon	nsubj
11	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 harsh	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dinner	det
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reckon	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 harsh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the mayor's footman					about the dinner	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 · ← Mova's choice

they had eaten it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was already cooked

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	4 cooked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cooked	aux:pass
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 cooked	advmod
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · passive		it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

it had been served cold

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	4 served	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 served	aux:pass
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 served	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · perfect · passive		it				cold property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 4

the cook had burnt every single dish on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burnt	aux
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dish	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dish	amod
7	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · perfect · passive		the cook					tree rules

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