Test 8 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

then the story is about a lamp, yeah? what's up with that lamp?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lamp	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamp	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lamp	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 lamp	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lamp	conj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 's	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 lamp	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 lamp	det
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 's	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story				then	about a lamp	tree rules
2	is a	present	the story not said here						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's knackered, last night, yeah

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 knackered	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knackered	aux:pass
3	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knackered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knackered	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 knackered	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	present · passive		it			night		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it's quitting, last shift tonight

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 quitting	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quitting	aux
3	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shift	punct
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shift	amod
6	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quitting	obj
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shift	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	present · progressive	it	last shift					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shift=Source

Option 3

it's retiring

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 retiring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 retiring	aux
3	retiring	retire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	present · progressive	it						vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it's retiring, last night on the job

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 retiring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 retiring	aux
3	retiring	retire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retiring	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 job	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 job	det
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retiring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	present · progressive	it			the job	night		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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