Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…
Did Joanna send a whole dollar for Christmas?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joanna · What happens: send · To what, where: whole dollar
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 2 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dollar | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dollar | amod |
| 6 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Christmas | case |
| 8 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · do-support | Joanna | a whole dollar | for Christmas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=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
yep, a whole dollar, bet, folded in the letter with a ribbon
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 dollar | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dollar | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dollar | amod |
| 5 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bet | punct |
| 7 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dollar | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 folded | punct |
| 9 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dollar | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 letter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 folded | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ribbon | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ribbon | det |
| 15 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letter | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | participle | a whole dollar and bet not said here | the letter with a ribbon | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yep, a whole dollar, bet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 dollar | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dollar | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dollar | amod |
| 5 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bet | punct |
| 7 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dollar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she sent a little gingerbread and some coins, no dollar at all
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gingerbread | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gingerbread | amod |
| 7 | gingerbread | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 coins | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 coins | det |
| 10 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gingerbread | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dollar | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 dollar | det |
| 13 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gingerbread | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | she | a little gingerbread and some coins and no dollar | all | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gingerbread=Theme |
Option 4
yep, half a dollar, bet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 dollar | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 dollar | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dollar | det |
| 5 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bet | punct |
| 7 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dollar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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