Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

did the dog lose his voice from barking too much, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: lose, bark · To what, where: voice, much

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1620 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs for a warm stove, freezes, and melts in the spring thaw» 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	4 lose	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 barking	mark
8	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lose	advcl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 barking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 barking	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	the dog	dog's voice					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality
2	bark	gerund	the dog not said here	much					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=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

nah, from being chained up for ages and yelling at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chained	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 chained	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chained	aux:pass
5	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 chained	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chained	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 yelling	cc
10	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chained	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 boy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain up	gerund · passive					for ages		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	yell speech: express	gerund						at the boy	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at boy=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, from being chained up and yelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chained	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chained	punct
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 chained	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chained	aux:pass
5	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 chained	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 yelling	cc
8	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chained	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain up	gerund · passive							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	yell speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, cuz he barked all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 barked	punct
3	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 barked	nsubj
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 barked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	cuz				night	long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, from barking at the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 barking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 barking	punct
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 barking	mark
4	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 boys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund						at the boys	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at boy=Stimulus

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