Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

did his mates still come round when he was broke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mates, he · What happens: do, come round, be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mates	nmod:poss
3	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 broke	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 broke	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broke	cop
10	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come round	present	his mates	still	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	he		broke property	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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, too many stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stairs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stairs	amod
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, they came every night to see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, they left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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