Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Did the painting actually look fun or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: painting · What happens: do, look · To what, where: painting

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 898 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy visits the Florence churches, then is shoved around by his mother and finds a kind home» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 painting	det
3	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 painting	acl
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fun	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the painting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Eventuality
2	look	infinitive	the painting not said here					actually, fun property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Yeah, the kids looked dead happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the kids					dead, happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, the kids looked dead miserable and were pointing at a grave in the corner

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 miserable	amod
7	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pointing	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pointing	aux
10	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 looked	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointing	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 corner	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corner	det
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the kids					miserable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	point	past · progressive	the kids not said here			a grave		in the corner	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the kids looked really sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the kids					sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, the kids looked dead happy and the whole painting was full of bright colours and laughter

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happy	amod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 full	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 painting	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 painting	amod
11	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 full	cop
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 colours	case
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 colours	amod
16	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughter	cc
18	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 colours	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the kids					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the whole painting					of bright colours and laughter; full property	tree rules

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