Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Was he skint, or did he have cash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, have · To what, where: cash

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skint	nsubj
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 skint	parataxis
9	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					skint property	tree rules
2	have	past · do-support	he	cash					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=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 · ← Mova's choice

Skint, bro, totally skint, not a penny in his pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 penny	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 penny	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 penny	det
10	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skint	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pocket	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pocket	nmod:poss
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 penny	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, bro, he had cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	bro					tree rules

Option 3

Loaded, bro, totally loaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bro	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loaded	punct
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 loaded	advmod
6	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bro	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	participle							vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	load	participle		Loaded bro not said here				totally property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Skint, bro, totally skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skint	punct
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	acl:relcl

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

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