Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

was the last word a big deal to the critic?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: last word

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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 word	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 critic	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 critic	det
10	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the last word					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

yup, he cared a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cared	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cared	nsubj
4	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	he	a lot				yup vocative	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was just a small thing to him really at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	14 end	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a small thing	him = he		at the end		tree rules

Option 3

yeah, it was everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, super important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 important	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 important	advmod
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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