Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

bro the goblin borrowed the wife's tongue, like for real, so what happened next?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro goblin · What happens: borrow, happen · To what, where: tongue

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goblin	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borrowed	nsubj
4	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tongue	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borrowed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 real	case
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 borrowed	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 happened	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 borrowed	parataxis
17	next	next	ADV	_	16 happened	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 borrowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	the bro goblin	the wife's tongue					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	happen	past						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the grocer fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grocer	det
2	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the grocer					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the fire alarm rang and the tub started talking loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 alarm	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alarm	compound
3	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 started	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tub	det
7	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rang	conj
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 started	xcomp
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 talking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the fire alarm		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	the tub		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	the tub not said here	loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the tub started talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the tub						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	the tub not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the tub started talking about poetry and art

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 started	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 poetry	case
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 art	cc
8	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poetry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the tub						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	the tub not said here					about poetry and art	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about poetry=Topic

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