Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

Bro, the statue was dead old and well cool, yeah?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 statue	det
4	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cool	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 cool	advmod
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 old	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the statue					Bro vocative; old property	tree rules
2	be		the statue not said here					well property	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 common piece of junk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 piece	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 piece	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 piece	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 junk	case
9	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a common piece				of junk	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, very pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pretty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 pretty	advmod
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, it was a cheap copy from Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 copy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 copy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 copy	det
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 copy	amod
7	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Rome	case
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 copy	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a relic of the best period of art

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 relic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 relic	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 relic	det
4	relic	relic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 period	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 period	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 period	amod
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relic	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 art	case
10	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	nmod

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

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