Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

Did the young man call the Snow-man a beauty?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: call · To what, where: Snow man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Snow	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beauty	det
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the young man		the Snow man				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, mate, he called him a fool and said he was ugly and cold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fool	det
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ugly	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ugly	cop
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cold	cc
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ugly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	he	him = he		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he		ugly property	tree rules
4	be		he not said here			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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