Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…
Did the tin spoon thing make them all brothers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spoon thing · What happens: make · To what, where: them
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1000 «Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 3 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | compound |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 brothers | det |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the spoon thing | them = they | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary brother=Product |
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
Nah, different spoons, so they're not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoons | amod |
| 4 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 're | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 're | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 're | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoons | acl:relcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 're | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoon | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoon | amod |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoon | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | brothers | all property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers, even the one who lost his leg, innit
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoon | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoon | amod |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 innit | punct |
| 20 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | spoon | brothers | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | the one | his leg | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality |
Option 4
Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers, which is why they stick together so much
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spoon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoon | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoon | amod |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 why | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 why | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 why | cop |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stick | nsubj |
| 16 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 why | advcl:relcl |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 stick | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 stick | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | brothers | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | brothers | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stick together | present | brothers = brother | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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