Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Did the birds reckon the dad was in heaven?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds, dad · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: heaven

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heaven	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heaven	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the birds						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the dad			heaven			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, they were singing happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 singing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	they					happy property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they weren't sure, they were just flying about the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sure	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sure	advmod
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flying	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flying	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flying	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 flying	advmod
11	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sure	parataxis
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	they					sure property	tree rules
2	fly	past · progressive	they					about the fields	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Location

Option 3

Yeah, they were chatting about it all day long in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chatting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chatting	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatting	aux
5	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatting	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatting	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chatting	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · progressive	they			the trees	day	about it; long property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were chatting about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chatting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatting	aux
5	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · progressive	they					about it	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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