Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

lol the dog was chained up cuz he bit some kid, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: chain up, bite · To what, where: dog, kid

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 chained	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chained	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	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	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chained	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bit	nsubj
9	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cuz	acl:relcl
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kid	det
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chained	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chained	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain up	past · passive		the dog					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient cuz=Result
2	bite	past	dog	some kid					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the kid nicked his bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bone	nmod:poss
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the kid	kid's bone					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2

nah, the kid kept poking him with a stick all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poking	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stick	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poking	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poking	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 poking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the kid						tree rules
2	poke	gerund	the kid not said here	kid			day	with a stick; long property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme with stick=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the girl took his ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ball	nmod:poss
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the girl	his ball					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

Option 4

yep, the kid nicked his bone off the step so he bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bone	nmod:poss
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 step	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 bit	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bit	nsubj
13	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nicked	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the kid	kid's bone				off the step	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bone=Theme off step=Source
2	bite	past	kid	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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