Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

was the sweep's face all black with soot, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: face

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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	5 face	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sweep	det
3	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 face	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sweep	case
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 black	csubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 black	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 soot	case
9	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 black	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 black	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sweep's face					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

yeah, it was pretty blacked up with soot from the chimney all over his face

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blacked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blacked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blacked	aux:pass
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 blacked	advmod
6	blacked	black	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 blacked	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 soot	case
9	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blacked	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 chimney	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chimney	det
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soot	nmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 face	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	black up	past · passive		it		his face		with soot from the chimney; pretty property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with soot=Theme

Option 2

yeah, it was smudged all over with grime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 smudged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smudged	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smudged	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smudged	aux:pass
5	smudged	smudge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 smudged	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 grime	case
9	grime	grime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smudged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smudge	past · passive		it				with grime; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with grime=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was pretty blacked up with soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blacked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blacked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blacked	aux:pass
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 blacked	advmod
6	blacked	black	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 blacked	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 soot	case
9	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	black up	past · passive		it				with soot; pretty property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with soot=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was covered in dark soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 covered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux:pass
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 soot	case
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soot	amod
8	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		it				in dark soot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in soot=Theme

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