Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

Real talk, what is the house in the wood like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: house, wood

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 house	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 house	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	10 wood	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk	the house		the wood			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

the house was old and dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dark	cc
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the house					old property	tree rules
2	be		the house not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the house was not there where they expected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 expected	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expected	nsubj
8	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the house					there property	tree rules
2	expect	past	they						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it was a warm brown cottage

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	6 cottage	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cottage	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottage	amod
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the house was small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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