Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…
yo, did the dolls end up getting rubbed or not?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dolls · What happens: end up, rub
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 end | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dolls | det |
| 5 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nsubj |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rubbed | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 end | compound:prt |
| 8 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 9 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 not | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 rubbed | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 rubbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past · do-support | the dolls | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rub | gerund · passive | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination» |
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 · ✓ the right answer
no, the showman felt sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 showman | det |
| 4 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the showman | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
yes, they were rubbed hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 rubbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 rubbed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past · passive | they | hard property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
yes, the showman rubbed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 showman | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 showman | det |
| 4 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 showman | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | participle | the showman not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
no, the dolls moved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 moved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dolls | det |
| 4 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the dolls | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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