Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

yo the goblin said he could not give up the grocer, why tho?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goblin · What happens: say, not give up · To what, where: grocer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 give	advmod
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grocer	det
11	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 give	parataxis
14	tho	tho	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 why	nsubj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the goblin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give up	could	goblin	the grocer					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grocer=Source

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

he loved the grocer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grocer	det
4	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	the grocer					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grocer=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he liked the candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candles	det
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	the candles					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot candle=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

because of the jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 jam	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 because	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jam	det
4	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

because the grocer had given him the jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grocer	det
3	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jam	det
8	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		the grocer	him = he				tree rules

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