Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

so Big Klaus smeared tar on the measure just to catch Klaus slipping, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big, Klaus · What happens: smear, catch, slip · To what, where: tar, measure, Klaus

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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	_	4 smeared	advmod
2	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 smeared	nsubj
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Big	flat
4	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smeared	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 measure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 measure	det
8	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smeared	obl
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 catch	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 catch	mark
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smeared	advcl
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obj
13	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Klaus	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Klaus	appos
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smeared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smear	past	Big	tar	the measure	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tar=Theme on measure=Destination
2	catch	to-infinitive	Big not said here	Klaus		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Theme
3	slip	gerund	Klaus not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

no cap, that was his whole plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 plan	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plan	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	his whole plan					tree rules

Option 2

no cap, he just wanted skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	no cap	skins					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme

Option 3

no cap, the whole tar thing was his plan all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
6	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plan	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plan	nmod:poss
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 along	advmod
12	along	along	ADV	_	10 plan	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	his plan				along property	tree rules

Option 4

no cap, that was his whole plan, lowkey evil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 plan	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plan	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 evil	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evil	compound
11	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	his whole plan					tree rules

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