Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

Was the convent place once a temple or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: convent place

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 954 «Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up» 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 place	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
3	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	compound
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 temple	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 temple	det
7	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 temple	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the convent place and a temple					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

Nah, it was a bakery and a market where people sold bread and wine to the city

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bakery	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bakery	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bakery	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bakery	det
6	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 market	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 market	det
9	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bakery	conj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 sold	advmod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 market	acl:relcl
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sold	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wine	cc
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bread	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 city	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 city	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a bakery and a market					tree rules
2	sell	past	people	bread and wine	the city				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to city=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the ruins of a temple stood there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ruins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ruins	det
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 temple	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 temple	det
7	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruins	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the ruins of a temple			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ruin			a temple					nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Yeah, the ruins of a pagan temple stood there before the convent was built on the spot

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ruins	det
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stood	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 temple	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 temple	det
7	pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 temple	amod
8	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruins	nmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stood	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 built	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 convent	det
13	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 built	aux:pass
15	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stood	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 spot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spot	det
18	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	the ruins of a pagan temple		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	past · passive		the convent	the spot	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on spot=Source
3	ruin			a pagan temple		nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, an old church stood there once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 church	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 church	amod
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stood	advmod
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a old church			there		once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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