Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

Five hundred dollars, that's a lot of cash, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hundred dollars · What happens: be · To what, where: lot

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lot	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lot	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lot	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dollars	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cash	case
10	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lot	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 dollars	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hundred dollars	a lot				of cash	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, it was a modest sum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 sum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sum	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sum	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sum	det
6	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sum	amod
7	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a modest sum					tree rules

Option 2

nah, that was not much at all, she left only a few coins and her boots

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 all	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	8 all	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 nah	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	only	only	ADV	_	15 coins	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coins	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coins	amod
15	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 boots	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 boots	nmod:poss
18	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she	a few coins and her boots					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the aunt left a fat sum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aunt	det
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sum	det
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sum	amod
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the aunt	a fat sum					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme

Option 4

nah, pretty small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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