Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

lowkey, what was the big deal with the nuns?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 nuns	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nuns	det
10	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	the big deal				with the nuns	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

they gave a sorrowful glance at the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glance	det
4	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glance	amod
5	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 horses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a sorrowful glance				at the horses	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at horse=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they had a sad, mournful look at the coach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 look	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
6	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 coach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coach	det
10	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a sad mournful look		the coach			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 3

they had a sad, mournful look at the coach as it rolled away down the hill

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 look	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
6	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 coach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coach	det
10	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 rolled	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rolled	nsubj
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 rolled	advmod
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a sad mournful look		the coach			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
2	roll away	past	look			the hill		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

Option 4

they had a sad, mournful look at the coach and the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 look	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
6	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 coach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coach	det
10	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 horses	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horses	det
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 coach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a sad mournful look		the coach and the horses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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