Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

wait, so the boulders are, like, super old, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boulders · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boulders	det
5	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	11 old	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	super	super	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the boulders					old, super 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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, way older than Noah's ark, lowkey wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 older	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 older	obl:unmarked
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 ark	case
6	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ark	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Noah	case
8	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 older	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 older	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wild	amod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 older	conj

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

Option 2

nah, just a few hundred years, kinda boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 years	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boring	punct
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	10 boring	advmod
10	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	conj

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

Option 3

yeah, way older than Noah's ark and the whole world, lowkey wild and cracked

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 older	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 older	obl:unmarked
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 ark	case
6	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ark	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Noah	case
8	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 older	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 world	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ark	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wild	punct
14	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wild	amod
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 older	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cracked	cc
17	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wild	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, they're from last summer's storm, though they look super ancient and wild

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 storm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 storm	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 storm	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 storm	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summer	amod
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 storm	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 summer	case
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 storm	acl:relcl
14	super	super	ADV	_	15 ancient	advmod
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wild	cc
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ancient	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			last summer's storm	summer		tree rules
2	look	present	they	last summer's storm not said here				ancient property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme storm=Attribute

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