Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Was the wedding bare loud and mad?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	3 wedding	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loud	amod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wedding	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mad	cc
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loud	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wedding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wedding					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 was a riot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 riot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 riot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 riot	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 riot	det
6	riot	riot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, quite loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, bare loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bare	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bare	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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