Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

Yo, are the copybook letters mint or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: copybook letters · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 mint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mint	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 letters	det
5	copybook	copybook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letters	compound
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mint	nsubj
7	mint	mint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 mint	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the copybook letters					mint 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

they lean over like they're about to fall, proper wonky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lean	nsubj
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 lean	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 about	case
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 about	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADP	_	2 lean	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lean	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wonky	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wonky	amod
12	wonky	wonky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean over	present	they					over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they're wonky, leaning over like they're gonna tumble down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wonky	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wonky	cop
3	wonky	wonky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leaning	punct
5	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wonky	advcl
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 leaning	advmod
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 tumble	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tumble	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tumble	aux
10	gonna	gonna	PART	_	11 tumble	mark
11	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leaning	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 tumble	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	wonky property	tree rules
2	lean over	gerund	they not said here	over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tumble down	present	they		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they're all lined up neat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lined	nsubj:pass
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lined	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 lined	advmod
4	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lined	compound:prt
6	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lined	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line up	present · passive		they				all, neat property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they lean like they're falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lean	nsubj
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 falling	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 falling	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 falling	aux
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present · progressive	they						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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