Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…
Was the Pig a proper legend or just rubbish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Pig
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Pig | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pig | det |
| 3 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legend | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 legend | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legend | amod |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 rubbish | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 rubbish | advmod |
| 9 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legend | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 legend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Pig | 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 just a dull statue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 statue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 statue | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 statue | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 statue | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 7 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 statue | amod |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a dull statue | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it was a total legend to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 legend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 legend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 legend | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a total legend | him = he | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, it was a total legend to him, the best thing he had ever ridden in his whole life
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 legend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 legend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 legend | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 legend | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ridden | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ridden | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 ridden | advmod |
| 17 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ridden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a total legend and the best thing | him = he | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | past · perfect | he | the best thing not said here | his whole life | ever | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it was rubbish, a cold old lump of metal that did nothing at all for anyone
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rubbish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rubbish | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rubbish | cop |
| 5 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lump | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lump | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lump | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lump | amod |
| 10 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbish | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 metal | case |
| 12 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lump | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lump | acl:relcl |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 did | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 anyone | case |
| 19 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | rubbish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | a cold old lump of metal | nothing | all | for anyone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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