Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The…

the rat wanted a passport, lol, who even does that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rat · What happens: want, do · To what, where: passport, that

This is test 4 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 passport	det
5	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lol	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 does	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 does	advmod
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the rat	a passport					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot passport=Theme
2	do	present		that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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 · ← Mova's choice

the rat wanted money cos the soldier never handed any over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 handed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handed	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 handed	advmod
9	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
10	any	any	ADV	_	9 handed	advmod
11	over	over	ADV	_	9 handed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the rat	money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
2	not hand over	past	the soldier					any, over property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the water-rat, he wanted toll cos the soldier never paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rat	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rat	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paid	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rat	parataxis
8	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 soldier	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obl
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 paid	advmod
13	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	rat	toll				cos the soldier	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toll=Theme
2	not pay	past	the water rat						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it's a toll thing, the rat wanted his cut, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rat	det
8	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cut	nmod:poss
11	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a toll thing and innit					tree rules
2	want	past	the rat	rat's cut					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=Theme

Option 4

he wanted money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=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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