Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Lowkey, what was the mead like at the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: mead

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mead	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mead	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mead	det
6	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 feast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mead	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the mead				like the feast	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

Mead they drank loads of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drank	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Mead	loads					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stuff they drank a ton of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ton	det
5	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 ton	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Stuff	a ton					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Patient

Option 3

Stuff they drank a ton of until the bard sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ton	det
5	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 ton	case
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 sang	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bard	det
9	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	nsubj
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drank	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Stuff	a ton					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	the bard						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Honey wine they drank in huge amounts all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wine	amod
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 amounts	case
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amounts	amod
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drank	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Honey wine			huge amounts	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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