Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Wasn't the bog just a swimming pool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: bog

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» 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 bog	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bog	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bog	det
4	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pool	csubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 pool	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pool	compound
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the bog					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

Nah, it was a thick warm bog of dark rotting mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bog	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bog	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bog	amod
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bog	amod
8	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mud	case
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mud	amod
11	rotting	rotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mud	compound
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bog	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a thick warm bog				of dark rotting mud	tree rules

Option 2

Nope, it was a hot steaming marsh full of bubbling sludge and slime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 marsh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 marsh	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 marsh	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 marsh	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marsh	amod
7	steaming	steaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marsh	compound
8	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marsh	amod
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 bubbling	mark
11	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 full	advcl
12	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bubbling	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 slime	cc
14	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sludge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a hot steaming marsh					tree rules
2	bubble	gerund		sludge and slime					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sludge=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was warm sludge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sludge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sludge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sludge	cop
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sludge	amod
6	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nope, just cold mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 mud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mud	amod
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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