Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

so was the soldier a good guy, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: be · To what, where: good guy

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 guy	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guy	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 guy	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the soldier	a good guy					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

nah, he kept it all himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it				himself = he obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he gave to the poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 poor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poor	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he		the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient

Option 3

nah, he gave nothing and kept all the gold for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 gold	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	nothing					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	keep	past	he not said here	all gold				for himself = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he gave to the poor and then married the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 poor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poor	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 married	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 married	advmod
10	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he		the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient
2	marry	past	he not said here	the princess			then		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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