Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

Wait, why's he only got one leg?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 leg	nummod
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	he					get 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the tin ran out when they made him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 ran	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tin	det
3	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 made	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	the tin						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	they	tin					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 2

Cos the tin ran out when they made him, so the bloke got a wooden leg later on

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 ran	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tin	det
3	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 made	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bloke	det
13	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leg	det
16	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 leg	amod
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 got	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	14 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run out	past	the tin			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	they	tin		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
3	get	past	the bloke	a wooden leg	late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus

Option 3

Cos he's just small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 small	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					small property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos someone nicked it off him, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 nicked	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proper	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	someone	it				off him = he	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme off he=Source

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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