Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

was the tree at Amack a real tree or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tree, Amack

This is test 9 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tree	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Amack	case
5	Amack	Amack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tree		Amack			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

nah, a stem from a dirt-heap, kinda like a giant mushroom with a roof on top

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stem	det
4	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 heap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heap	det
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heap	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dirt	punct
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stem	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mushroom	punct
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	15 mushroom	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 mushroom	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mushroom	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mushroom	amod
15	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stem	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 roof	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 roof	det
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mushroom	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 roof	nmod

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

Option 2

nah, a rock, like a big boulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boulder	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 boulder	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boulder	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boulder	amod
9	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rock	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, a stem from a dirt-heap, like a big mushroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stem	det
4	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 heap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heap	det
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heap	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dirt	punct
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stem	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mushroom	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 mushroom	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mushroom	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mushroom	amod
14	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stem	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a tall pine, like a stump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pine	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pine	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pine	amod
5	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stump	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 stump	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stump	det
9	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pine	conj

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

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