Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

no way the goblin cried at the key-hole, was he sad or happy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goblin, way · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: way, key hole

This is test 9 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sad	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 hole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hole	det
8	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 key	punct
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sad	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sad	nsubj
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 happy	cc
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sad	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the goblin	no way not said here	the key hole		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	is	past	no way			sad property	tree rules
3	be		no way not said here				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

angry and very tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tired	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 angry	conj

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

Option 2

both sad and happy at the very same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	CCONJ	_	2 sad	cc:preconj
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 happy	cc
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 same	advmod
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sad	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sad and happy at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 happy	cc
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sad	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 sad	obl

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

Option 4

sad, then very happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sad	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 happy	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sad	conj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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