Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

Who had the drum in the garret, the lad wiv the biggest beat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: have · To what, where: drum, garret

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drum	det
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garret	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garret	det
7	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wiv	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wiv	det
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wiv	compound
11	wiv	wiv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garret	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beat	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 beat	amod
14	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		the drum		the garret and the lad wiv			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

the tall lad at the back of the garret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lad	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 garret	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garret	det
9	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod

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

Option 2

the eldest boy wiv the drum sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wiv	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 wiv	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiv	compound
4	wiv	wiv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sticks	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drum	det
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiv	appos
7	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	the eldest boy wiv						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the eldest boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the big lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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