Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…
lol the shoemakers and tanners really beat him with yardsticks, right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shoemakers · What happens: beat · To what, where: him
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 beat | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoemakers | det |
| 3 | shoemakers | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tanners | cc |
| 5 | tanners | tanner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoemakers | conj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 beat | advmod |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 yardsticks | case |
| 10 | yardsticks | yardstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 beat | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the shoemakers and tanners | him = he | with yardsticks | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with yardstick=Instrument |
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
nope, they gave him a warm welcome home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | they | a warm welcome home | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient home=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yup, they gave him the L
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 L | det |
| 7 | L | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | they | the L | him = he | yup vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient l=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yup, they beat him up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 beat | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat up | present | they | him = he | yup vocative | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
Option 4
nah, they hugged him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hugged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hugged | nsubj |
| 4 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hugged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | past | they | him = he | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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