Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Was the burdock forest proper massive, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: burdock forest

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
3	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forest	compound
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 massive	csubj
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 massive	advmod
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 massive	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 massive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the burdock forest					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, it covered the back yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yard	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yard	compound
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	it	the back yard					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it covered the whole old garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garden	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	it	the whole old garden					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination

Option 3

Nah, just a few plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 plants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 plants	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plants	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plants	amod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, it only covered one bed by the wall but looked massive from underneath

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 covered	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 covered	advmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bed	nummod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	conj
13	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 underneath	case
15	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	12 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	it	one bed				by the wall	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Destination
2	look	past						massive property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from underneath=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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