Test 10 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

be real, what did the doc say about the thread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: doc · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doc	det
7	doc	doc	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 thread	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thread	det
11	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive		real property	tree rules
2	do	past	the doc		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doc=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present		about the thread	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

it should be cut now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	should · passive		it			now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

it'd be better if the thread were cut and the wound left open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cut	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thread	det
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 better	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wound	det
12	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cut	conj
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	it		good property	tree rules
2	cut a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the thread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	leave	participle	the wound		open property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it'd be better if cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it'd be better if it snapped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 snapped	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snapped	nsubj
7	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 better	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					good property	tree rules
2	snap a condition, not said to happen	past	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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