Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

what's the posh word for the old fella on the wall?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 fella	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fella	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fella	amod
9	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fella	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the posh word for the old fella on the wall						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

great-grandfather's painting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandfather	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 great	punct
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painting	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grandfather	case
5	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the old oil portrait of our great-grandfather painted many years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 portrait	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 portrait	amod
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 portrait	compound
4	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 painted	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 grandfather	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandfather	nmod:poss
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grandfather	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 great	punct
9	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 portrait	nmod
10	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 painted	obj
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 painted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	the old oil portrait of our great grandfather				year	ago property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	portray			our great grandfather					nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

great-grandfather's portrait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandfather	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 great	punct
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 portrait	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grandfather	case
5	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	portray		great grandfather						nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the great-grandfather's portrait hanging in the dusty hall upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandfather	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandfather	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 great	punct
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 portrait	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 grandfather	case
6	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 portrait	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obl
12	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	7 hanging	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	the great grandfather's portrait not said here			the dusty hall		upstairs property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	portray		the great grandfather						nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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