Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, say, tread on · To what, where: sack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trodden	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 trodden	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trodden	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 trodden	mark
12	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 trodden	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sack		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present		actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tread on	participle			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Squeak, squeak, loud as anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squeak	punct
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeak	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeak	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 loud	obl

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

Option 2

Squeal, squeal, loud as a pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squeal	punct
3	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeal	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeal	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 pig	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	obl

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

Option 3

Squeak, squeak, loud as anything, woke the whole house up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squeak	punct
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeak	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 squeak	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 loud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Squeak	punct
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	9 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	Squeak and squeak	the whole house					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 4

Squeak, squeak, squeak, loud as anything in the whole farmhouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squeak	punct
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeak	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squeak	punct
5	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeak	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loud	punct
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeak	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 loud	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 farmhouse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farmhouse	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 farmhouse	amod
13	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	nmod

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

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