Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

so the dude hit out at every second poet, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: hit out

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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 hit	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dude	det
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 hit	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 poet	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 poet	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 poet	amod
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 huh	punct
11	huh	huh	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit out	past	the dude					at every second poet	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at poet=Patient

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

nope, he just liked to insult them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 insult	mark
7	insult	insult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 insult	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	insult not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, because he couldn't be one himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 one	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 one	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 one	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 yup	appos
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 one	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	could	he	one				himself = he nmod:unmarked	tree rules

Option 3

nope, just bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yup, he was jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jealous	cop
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 yup	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	yup not said here				jealous property	tree rules

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