Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

wait, why's Little Klaus carting grandma around in her Sunday best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, cart · To what, where: Little Klaus, grandma

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Klaus	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Klaus	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Klaus	cop
5	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Klaus	amod
6	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	carting	cart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
8	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carting	obj
9	around	around	ADP	_	12 Sunday	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Sunday	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Sunday	nmod:poss
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carting	obl
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 Sunday	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		Little Klaus		tree rules
3	cart	gerund	you not said here	grandma	sunday	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=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

cause she's dead, he's running a scam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 running	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 running	aux
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dead	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 scam	det
10	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 running	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					dead property	tree rules
2	run	present · progressive	he	a scam					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scam=Trajectory

Option 2

cause she's dead, he's running a huge scam on the host

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 running	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 running	aux
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dead	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scam	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scam	amod
11	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 running	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 host	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 host	det
14	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					dead property	tree rules
2	run	present · progressive	he	a huge scam		the host			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scam=Theme on host=Trajectory

Option 3

to fool the innkeeper, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 innkeeper	det
4	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fool	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 fool	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the innkeeper					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Patient

Option 4

he's selling her as a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 selling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 selling	aux
3	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 selling	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · progressive	he	her = she				as a ghost	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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