Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Was the house opposite all noisy and that?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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	6 noisy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noisy	nsubj
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noisy	amod
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 noisy	advmod
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 that	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 noisy	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 noisy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the house					all, noisy 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 was noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 noisy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 noisy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noisy	cop
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, there was loud music and shouting all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 music	amod
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouting	cc
8	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 music	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	loud music			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	gerund	loud music not said here				night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was dead quiet except for a dog barking outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	except	except	ADP	_	10 dog	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quiet	obl
11	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dog	acl
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	11 barking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					except a dog; quiet property	tree rules
2	bark	gerund	a dog not said here					outside property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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