Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

was the dog wearing her coat when she went out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, wear, go out · To what, where: dog, coat

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 899 «Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the Metal Pig, Bellissima is taken by police, and the boy starts drawing» 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 dog	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wearing	csubj
4	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wearing	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wearing	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wearing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the dog	tree rules
2	wear	gerund		dog's coat	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
3	go out	past	dog		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, a little lambskin one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lambskin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lambskin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lambskin	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lambskin	amod
5	lambskin	lambskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lambskin	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was out in the cold with no coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 coat	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 coat	det
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cold	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the cold		with no coat; out property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she had her little lambskin coat on, the one with buttons and a hood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coat	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
7	lambskin	lambskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	compound
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	4 had	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 buttons	case
14	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hood	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hood	det
17	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buttons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on	past	she	her little lambskin coat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient

Option 4

nah, she was out in the cold with no coat on her back at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 out	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 out	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 out	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 coat	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 coat	det
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cold	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coat	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 out	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the cold with no coat on her back		at all; out property	tree rules

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