Test 11 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Moving-day is the worst day to go outside, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moving · What happens: move, be, go · To what, where: worst day

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 day	csubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 day	acl
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huh	punct
12	huh	huh	INTJ	_	9 go	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Moving	the worst day			tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive				outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Facts, the roads are full of old papers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roads	det
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Facts	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 papers	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 papers	amod
9	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Facts and the roads					of old papers; full property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, the streets are full of people shopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 streets	det
4	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	shopping	shop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 people	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the streets					of people; full property	tree rules
2	shop	gerund	people not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Facts, the streets are full of junk and rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 streets	det
4	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Facts	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 junk	case
8	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rubbish	cc
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 junk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Facts and the streets					of junk and rubbish; full property	tree rules

Option 4

Facts, the streets are full of junk and rubbish and broken boxes, so going outside that day is a really bad idea for everyone

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 streets	det
4	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Facts	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 junk	case
8	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rubbish	cc
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 junk	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 boxes	cc
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 boxes	amod
13	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 junk	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 idea	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	24 idea	advmod
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 idea	csubj
17	outside	outside	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 idea	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 idea	det
22	really	really	ADV	_	23 bad	advmod
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 idea	amod
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 everyone	case
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 idea	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Facts and the streets			of junk and rubbish and broken boxes; full property	tree rules
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	go	gerund			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	going	a bad idea		for everyone	tree rules

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