Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The…

bro the boys made him a boat out of a newspaper, mad

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro boys · What happens: make · To what, where: boat, him, newspaper

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1001 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Tinderbox, part 212: the tin soldier melts in the stove, and a soldier meets a witch by a hollow tree» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 newspaper	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 newspaper	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 newspaper	det
11	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the bro boys	a boat	him = he	a newspaper			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary boat=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

yeah, so mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

mad, and they launched him off with a cheer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 launched	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 launched	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 launched	nsubj
5	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 mad	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 launched	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 launched	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 cheer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cheer	det
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 launched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	launch off	past	they	him = he				with a cheer	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cheer=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they chucked him in the drain and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 drain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drain	det
8	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chucked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	they	him = he		the drain			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in drain=Destination
2	run off	past	they not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sick, and they sent him down the gutter while clapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sent	reparandum
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sent	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 sent	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gutter	det
9	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 clapping	mark
11	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send down	past	they	the gutter	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination gutter=Theme
2	clap	gerund	they not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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