Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

Is the old hound like, actually useful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: old hound

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hound	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hound	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hound	amod
4	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 useful	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 useful	punct
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 useful	advmod
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hound	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the old hound					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 right answer

Nah, he's blind and lazy, but they kept him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lazy	cc
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blind	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	he		blind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	keep	past	they	him = he		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he's old, but they loved him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 loved	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					old property	tree rules
2	love	past	they	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, he's blind and lazy, but he sleeps in the barn and they feed him scraps

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lazy	cc
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blind	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleeps	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sleeps	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleeps	nsubj
11	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 barn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barn	det
14	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feed	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	nsubj
17	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sleeps	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	iobj
19	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	he				blind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here					tree rules
3	sleep	present	he			the barn		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location
4	feed	present	they	scraps	him = he			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient scrap=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he still finds the game well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 finds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finds	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 finds	advmod
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 finds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	he	the game			still	well property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic

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