Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

Who's the goblin then, the snuff thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: goblin

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 goblin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goblin	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 goblin	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goblin	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 goblin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the goblin and the snuff thing			then		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

Yeah, outta the snuff-box at midnight, a sort of toy puzzle thing that had been on the table for ages

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 outta	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 outta	punct
3	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
5	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 snuff	punct
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outta	list
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sort	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sort	det
12	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 thing	case
14	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	compound
15	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	compound
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sort	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 table	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 table	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 table	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 table	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 table	det
22	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 ages	case
24	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 table	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	toy puzzle thing			the table	for ages		tree rules
2	sort			toy puzzle thing					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, outta the snuff-box, a toy puzzle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 outta	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 outta	punct
3	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
5	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 snuff	punct
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outta	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 puzzle	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 puzzle	det
10	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puzzle	compound
11	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outta	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, outta the tin, a wooden doll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 outta	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 outta	punct
3	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tin	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outta	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doll	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doll	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doll	amod
9	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outta	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, he came out the clock, a wind-up toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 toy	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 toy	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 toy	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 wind	compound
13	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clock	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	he	the clock				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient clock=Result

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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