Test 12 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

Mate, what was the cold like, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mate	conj
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 proper	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mate					cold property	tree rules
2	be		Mate not said here						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

Sharp, like vitriol and burnt tar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharp	sharp	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sharp	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 vitriol	case
4	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharp	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tar	cc
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tar	amod
7	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vitriol	conj

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

Option 2

Sharp and bitter, like vitriol from the apothecary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vitriol	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bitter	cc
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sharp	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vitriol	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 vitriol	case
6	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 apothecary	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 apothecary	det
9	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vitriol	nmod

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

Option 3

Sharp as a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 knife	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharp	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sharp, like vitriol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharp	sharp	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sharp	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 vitriol	case
4	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharp	obl

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

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