Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

Yo, the young storks had black beaks, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: young storks · What happens: have · To what, where: black beaks

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storks	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 storks	amod
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beaks	amod
8	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the young storks	black beaks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient

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

No, they were red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 red	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct

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

Option 2

Yes, they had not gone red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	they					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, they were black.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 black	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, theirs had not turned red yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 turned	advmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turned	xcomp
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not turn	past · perfect	theirs = they				yet	red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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