Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

Bro, how much gold did the squire keep?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, squire · What happens: do, keep · To what, where: squire

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gold	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gold	amod
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 squire	det
8	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 squire	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro and much gold	the squire					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squire=Eventuality
2	keep	infinitive	the squire not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Half of the gold, the rest went to Hans's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 went	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Half	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 father	case
10	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 father	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Hans	case
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Half of the gold					to Hans's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location

Option 2

Half of it, and Hans got the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 got	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Half	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Half of it	the rest					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Half of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Half	nmod

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

Option 4

A third of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 third	nmod

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

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