Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

Was the uncle a proper hunter or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: uncle

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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 uncle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hunter	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunter	amod
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the uncle					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, one of the best chamois hunters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 hunters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunters	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 hunters	amod
7	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunters	compound
8	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, he was one of the best chamois hunters in the whole valley and knew every path

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 knew	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 hunters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunters	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 hunters	amod
9	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunters	compound
10	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 valley	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 valley	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 valley	amod
14	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunters	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 path	det
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	one				of the best chamois hunters in the whole valley	tree rules
2	know	past		every path					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was a mere clerk, actually

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a mere clerk				actually property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, one of the best chamois hunters in the whole canton, and he won many prizes at fairs

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 won	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 hunters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunters	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 hunters	amod
7	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunters	compound
8	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 canton	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 canton	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 canton	amod
12	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunters	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 won	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 won	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 won	nsubj
16	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prizes	amod
18	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 won	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 fairs	case
20	fairs	fair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	one of the best chamois hunters in the whole canton	many prizes		fairs			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent prize=Theme at fair=Asset

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