Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

Was it the goblin or the draught that did it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, draught · What happens: be, do · To what, where: goblin, draught

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 goblin	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goblin	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 draught	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 draught	det
7	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goblin	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draught	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 goblin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the goblin or the draught					tree rules
2	do	past	the draught	draught					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

Dunno, it was the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	6 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody knows, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody	innit					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer innit=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Think it was the goblin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 goblin	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 goblin	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goblin	det
5	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the goblin					tree rules

Option 4

Nobody knows, innit, cos the goblin and the draught both had a go

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 knows	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goblin	det
8	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 draught	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 draught	det
11	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goblin	conj
12	both	both	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 go	det
15	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	the goblin and the draught	a go				both property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient

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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