Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

real talk, the student bought cheese and got a whole book, was that a good trade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: buy, get, be · To what, where: cheese, whole book, good trade

This is test 11 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 student	det
5	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	nsubj
6	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bought	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 book	amod
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trade	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trade	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 trade	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 trade	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trade	amod
18	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	buy	past	real talk	cheese	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
2	get	past	real talk not said here	a whole book	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus
3	is a	past		a good trade	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

no, he gave up cheese for a book he lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 book	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 book	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	cheese				for a book	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Source
2	lose	past	he	a book not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, he got the book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the book					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus

Option 3

no, he got cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	cheese					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus

Option 4

yes, he got the whole book and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the whole book					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus

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