Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Mate, did Big Klaus really whack Little Klaus's horse, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, whack, innit · To what, where: Big, horse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1728 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Big	flat
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 whack	advmod
7	whack	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Klaus	amod
9	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 horse	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Klaus	case
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whack	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 whack	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	Big	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent big=Eventuality
2	whack	present	Mate not said here	Little Klaus's horse	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	innit	infinitive	Mate 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

Yeah, bruv, one massive hit with an iron bar and it was dead, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bruv	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hit	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hit	nummod
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hit	amod
7	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bruv	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bar	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bar	det
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bar	compound
11	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dead	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dead	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bar	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 bruv	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bar					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, mate, hit it and it died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	mate				mate vocative	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	die	past	mate						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Nah, bro, it was only a slap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 slap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slap	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slap	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 slap	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 slap	det
9	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	a slap					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bruv, one hit and it was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bruv	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hit	nummod
6	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bruv	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dead	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bruv	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hit					dead property	tree rules

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