Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

was the soldier like, ever actually rich or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: soldier

This is test 5 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soldier	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rich	csubj
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 rich	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rich	punct
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 rich	advmod
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 rich	advmod
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 rich	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rich	punct

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

yeah, rich for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rich	punct
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rich	obl

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

Option 2

nah, he was never rich, just lucky with the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 rich	advmod
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lucky	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 lucky	advmod
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rich	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 dogs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dogs	det
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lucky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	he					rich property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here					with the dogs	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, proper rich at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	amod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rich	obl

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

Option 4

yeah, he was rich at first but became poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 rich	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 became	cc
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	conj
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rich property	tree rules
2	become	past	he not said here					poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1002-pg27200-part213/t5/