Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

did the niece have fun at the party or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: niece · What happens: have · To what, where: fun, party

This is test 4 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 niece	det
3	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 party	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the niece	fun		the party			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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

she said it was pretty fun, kinda weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fun	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fun	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 fun	advmod
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weird	punct
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 weird	advmod
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	fun, pretty property	tree rules
3	be			kinda property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah it was fun, she said it was amusing, but she was really sus of those poets all night long

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fun	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fun	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 amusing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amusing	cop
10	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sus	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sus	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sus	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sus	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 sus	advmod
16	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fun	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 poets	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 poets	det
19	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sus	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fun	obl:unmarked
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	night	fun property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it		amusing property	tree rules
4	is	past	she		of that poets; suspect property	tree rules

Option 3

she said it was very amusing and lively, but honestly she was kinda sus about the whole thing

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 amusing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amusing	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lively	cc
8	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amusing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sus	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sus	cc
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	15 sus	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sus	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sus	cop
14	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	15 sus	advmod
15	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 thing	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sus	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	amusing property	tree rules
3	be				tree rules
4	is	past	she	about the whole thing; honestly, kinda, suspect property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she said it was very amusing, but she was sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 amusing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amusing	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sus	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sus	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sus	cop
11	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	amusing property	tree rules
3	is	past	she	suspect property	tree rules

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