Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

yo did the soldier like actually chop the witch's head off?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, soldier · What happens: do, chop off · To what, where: soldier, head

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 chop	mark
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 chop	advmod
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 soldier	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 witch	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	7 chop	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the soldier					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality
2	chop off	infinitive	the soldier not said here	the witch's head				actually property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he did, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	no cap					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Eventuality

Option 2

nah, the witch just vanished into the tree roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 vanished	advmod
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 roots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roots	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roots	compound
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	the witch			the tree roots			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, he just left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	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	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he did, he chopped it off with the sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chopped	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chopped	nsubj
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chopped	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 chopped	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 sword	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sword	det
11	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chop off	past	he	it				with the sword	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sword=Instrument

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