Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

the poet and the naturalist, were they cool with each other

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poet · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poet	det
2	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cool	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 naturalist	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 naturalist	det
5	naturalist	naturalist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poet	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 poet	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cool	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cool	nsubj
9	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 cool	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poet and the naturalist					with each; cool 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

Nah, they fought about her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they					about her = she	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about she=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they argued about the toad a lot and never really got along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 got	advmod
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 argued	conj
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they	a lot				about the toad	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about toad=Topic
2	not get along	participle	they not said here					along property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, they argued about the toad a lot, though they both cared about her in the end

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cared	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 cared	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cared	nsubj
13	both	both	ADV	_	14 cared	advmod
14	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 argued	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cared	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they	a lot				about the toad	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about toad=Topic
2	care	past	they				in the end	about toad; both property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about she=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they argued about the toad a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they	a lot				about the toad	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about toad=Topic

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