Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

Eighteen dollars a year, is that bare money or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Eighteen dollars · What happens: be · To what, where: bare money

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 money	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dollars	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 money	cop
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 money	det
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 money	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 money	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Eighteen dollars a year	that bare money					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not much, bare low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 low	amod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 much	conj

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

Option 2

Not much, bare low, for a man who works so hard all day

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 low	amod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 works	nsubj
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 works	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 works	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a low man				day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Not much at all, it is bare low pay indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	10 pay	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 much	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	cop
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pay	amod
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pay	amod
10	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	10 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	bare low pay				indeed property	tree rules

Option 4

Very good, quite high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	conj

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

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