Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

So the Mum-Toad basically said the bucket could squash u, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, bucket · What happens: say, squash · To what, where: u · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mum	det
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Toad	punct
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mum	conj
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bucket	det
9	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squash	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 squash	aux
11	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 squash	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 squash	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 squash	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Mum and Toad					basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	squash	could	the bucket	u					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument you=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, and it could chuck you out if you're not careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chuck	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 chuck	compound:prt
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 careful	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 careful	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 careful	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 careful	advmod
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuck	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck out	could	it	you					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					careful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it could squash you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 squash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squash	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 squash	aux
5	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 squash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	could	it	you					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument you=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, and it could drown you if you're not careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 drown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drown	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drown	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drown	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drown	aux
6	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drown	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 careful	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 careful	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 careful	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 careful	advmod
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drown	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	could	it	you					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					careful property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, it might squash you flat if you're careless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 squash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squash	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 squash	aux
5	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 squash	obj
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squash	xcomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 careless	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 careless	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 careless	cop
11	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squash	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	might	it	you				flat property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument you=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					careless property	tree rules

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