Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

yo, the old willow is still there, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old willow · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 willow	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 willow	amod
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 there	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the old willow				still	there 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

yeah, it's like a hanging garden up top with grass and flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 garden	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 garden	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 garden	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	10 top	case
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flowers	cc
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					like a hanging garden; up top; with grass and flowers	tree rules

Option 2

nah, they chopped it down years back, nothing left but the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 chopped	compound:prt
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 back	obl:unmarked
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 chopped	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 chopped	parataxis
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 nothing	acl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 walls	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	past	they	it					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it's like a hanging garden up top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 garden	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 garden	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 garden	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 garden	compound:prt
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					like a hanging garden and top	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it's still standing by the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 standing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 standing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present · progressive	it				still	by the pool	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pool=Location

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