Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

Was the mill fancy or what?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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	4 fancy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fancy	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	compound
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	csubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 what	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mill fancy					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

It was plain and small

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	3 plain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plain	cop
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 small	cc
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					plain property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It had turrets and tin roof plates

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	turrets	turret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 plates	cc
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	compound
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plates	compound
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turrets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	turrets and roof plates					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turret=Patient

Option 3

It had a small garden and a fence

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garden	amod
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fence	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 garden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	a small garden and a fence					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

Option 4

It was painted white with green doors

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	3 painted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 painted	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 doors	case
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doors	amod
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		It				with green doors; white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with door=Theme

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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