Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Wait, why was Little Klaus gutted on the road?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Little Klaus · What happens: wait, be, gut · To what, where: road

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gutted	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 gutted	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Little	cop
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Klaus	amod
6	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gutted	nsubj
7	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gutted	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			little property	tree rules
3	gut	participle	Little Klaus	the road		vn pit-10.7 «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 · ✓ the right answer

His horse was dead, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 dead	discourse

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

Option 2

His horse was dead, innit, and his money was gone too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 dead	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 money	nmod:poss
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His horse					dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	horse's money					gone property	tree rules

Option 3

His dog ran off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dog	nmod:poss
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	His dog					mate vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

His cart was broken, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cart	nmod:poss
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 broken	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		His cart					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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