Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

Mate, what's the fruit like, is it sick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, fruit · What happens: be · To what, where: fruit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fruit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fruit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fruit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	6 fruit	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the fruit	the fruit					tree rules
2	is	present	fruit					Mate and the fruit vocative; sick 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 · ← Mova's choice

it's all golden, innit

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 golden	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 golden	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 golden	advmod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 golden	discourse

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

Option 2

it's dull and grey

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 dull	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dull	cop
3	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grey	cc
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dull	conj

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

Option 3

it's rotten, bruv

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 rotten	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rotten	cop
3	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rotten	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it glitters like gold

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 glitters	nsubj
2	glitters	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glitters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	present	it					like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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