Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

Was the fire thing actually real, or was aunt making it up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunt · What happens: be, make up · To what, where: fire thing, aunt, thing

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	csubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 aunt	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 aunt	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 aunt	cop
10	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	obl
11	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 aunt	acl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 making	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 making	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the fire thing	tree rules
2	is a	past		aunt	tree rules
3	make up	gerund	aunt not said here	thing	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

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 · ✓ the right answer

it was real, smoke and everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smoke	punct
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 everything	cc
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 smoke	conj

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

Option 2

it was real, smoke and everything, and the whole house nearly ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smoke	punct
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 everything	cc
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 smoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					real property	tree rules
2	run	past	the whole house					nearly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it was real, with real smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smoke	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smoke	amod
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					with real smoke; real property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, aunt made it up, there was no smoke, just a bit of dust from the painted scenes

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 was	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 smoke	det
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bit	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 bit	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoke	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 dust	case
17	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 scenes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 scenes	det
20	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 scenes	amod
21	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make up	past	aunt	it		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	be	past	no smoke		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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