Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

So why's the street name kinda weird?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: street name · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 weird	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 weird	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 weird	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 name	det
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	compound
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weird	nsubj
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 weird	advmod
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the street name					kinda, weird property	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

It comes from a German word for house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 house	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			a German word for house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It might be from an old Danish name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 name	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 name	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 name	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 name	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 name	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
7	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	It			a old Danish name			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might come from Hauschen, a little house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Hauschen	case
5	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 house	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hauschen	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might	It			Hauschen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hauschen=Initial_Location

Option 4

It's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules

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