Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: get, fetch · To what, where: four bob, tinder box

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bob	nummod
6	bob	bob	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 fetching	mark
8	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 got	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 box	nmod:poss
10	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 box	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tinder	punct
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetching	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the soldier	four bob					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bob=Stimulus
2	fetch	gerund	the soldier not said here	soldier's tinder box					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

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, three shillings, a fair price for that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shillings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shillings	nummod
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 price	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 price	det
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 price	amod
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shillings	appos
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 price	nmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, four shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shillings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shillings	nummod
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, four shillings, a lot of money then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shillings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shillings	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shillings	nummod
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lot	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shillings	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lot	nmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shillings	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, four shillings, that's proper cash back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shillings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shillings	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shillings	nummod
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cash	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cash	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cash	cop
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cash	amod
9	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shillings	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 cash	advmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shillings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	proper cash					tree rules

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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