Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Did the farmer's missus let him in, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: missus · What happens: let in · To what, where: farmer

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 missus	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	6 let	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 let	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	past · do-support	the farmer's missus	farmer					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Nah, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Nah	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she shut the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	she	the door					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

Nope, shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she let him in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	past	she	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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