Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Ya reckon the golden railing was a proper big deal?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ya, golden railing · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: proper big deal

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 railing	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 railing	amod
5	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deal	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deal	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 deal	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	infinitive	Ya						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the golden railing	a proper big deal					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

Yeah, the king made it for the spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 spot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the king	it				for the spot	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for spot=Beneficiary

Option 2

Yeah, the king made it for the spot and put a sentry there too, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 spot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sentry	det
13	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 put	advmod
15	too	too	ADV	_	11 put	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the king	it				for the spot	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for spot=Beneficiary
2	put	infinitive	the king not said here	a sentry		there			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sentry=Goal

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the king had it made for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	it					tree rules
2	make	participle						for king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

Option 4

Nah, it was just a cheap fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 fence	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fence	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fence	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 fence	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fence	det
7	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fence	amod
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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