Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

Was the old bachelor's cap a big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cap

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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	6 cap	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bachelor	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bachelor	amod
4	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bachelor	case
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deal	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct

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

Yeah, he wore a red one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	a red one					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source

Option 2

Nope, he had a tall hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hat	amod
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a tall hat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he had two nightcaps

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nightcaps	nummod
6	nightcaps	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	two nightcaps					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he had two nightcaps, one of them made of knitted silk

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nightcaps	nummod
6	nightcaps	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nightcaps	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 one	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 silk	case
13	knitted	knit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 silk	amod
14	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	two nightcaps		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Patient
2	make	participle			of knitted silk	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	knit	participle				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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