Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…

was Babette's godmother a dead grumpy old lady?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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 godmother	cop
2	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 godmother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Babette	case
4	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lady	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lady	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lady	amod
7	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lady	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lady	amod
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Babette's godmother					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

yeah, she was dead stern, face like a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stern	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stern	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stern	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stern	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stern	amod
6	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stern	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rock	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rock	det
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	dead stern and face like a rock					tree rules

Option 2

nah, she was thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 thin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was dead friendly with a round smiley face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 friendly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friendly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 friendly	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friendly	amod
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 face	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 face	det
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
10	smiley	smiley	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friendly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with a round smiley face; friendly property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, she was kind, with a warm face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 face	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 face	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 face	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with a warm face; kind property	tree rules

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