Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Was the snail house wicked, or just okay?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snail house · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	5 wicked	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wicked	nsubj
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 okay	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 okay	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 okay	advmod
9	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wicked	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snail house					wicked property	tree rules
2	be		the snail house 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 · ✓ the right answer

Totally fine, they had houses from birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 fine	advmod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fine	parataxis
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 birth	case
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	houses		birth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 2

Totally normal, they lived in shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 normal	advmod
2	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 shells	case
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they			shells			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shell=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Not wicked at all, they had their own houses from birth and never needed to borrow one

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 wicked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wicked	parataxis
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 houses	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 houses	amod
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 birth	case
12	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 needed	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 needed	advmod
15	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wicked	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 borrow	mark
17	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 needed	xcomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 borrow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	they	their own houses	birth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
2	not need	participle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive		one		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

Mostly okay, though they bullied the black snails who had no houses at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 okay	advmod
2	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bullied	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 bullied	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bullied	nsubj
6	bullied	bully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 okay	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snails	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snails	amod
9	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bullied	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 snails	acl:relcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 houses	det
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past	they		the black snails				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Beneficiary
2	have	past	the black snails	no houses		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient

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