Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

what did the rag say about gilding, like the shiny bit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: rag · What happens: do, say, gild · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rag	det
4	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 gilding	mark
7	gilding	gild	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bit	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 bit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gilding	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the rag	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	gild	gerund	the rag not said here	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 fades quickly in the damp, leaving the soldier ugly and bare

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 fades	nsubj
2	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 fades	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 damp	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 damp	det
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fades	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaving	punct
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fades	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaving	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bare	cc
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ugly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	it			the damp		quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	gerund		the soldier				ugly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme

Option 2

it lasts for many years

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 lasts	nsubj
2	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	it				year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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

it fades in damp weather

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 fades	nsubj
2	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 weather	case
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weather	amod
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fades	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	it			damp weather			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

it is shiny

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 shiny	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shiny	cop
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					shiny property	tree rules

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