Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

the host threw the mead at her face? that's so unhinged

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: host, that · What happens: throw, be · To what, where: mead, face

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mead	det
5	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 unhinged	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 unhinged	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unhinged	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 unhinged	advmod
13	unhinged	unhinged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the host	the mead		host's face			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mead=Theme at face=Destination
2	is	present	that					unhinged property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

fr, his temper went full rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rage	amod
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	his temper	fr					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rage=Theme
2	temper		his = he						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he threw it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threw	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

fr, his temper went full rage and he threw the whole jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rage	amod
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 threw	nsubj
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jug	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jug	amod
13	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past	his temper	fr	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rage=Theme
2	throw	past	temper	the whole jug	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme
3	temper		his = he		nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

fr, his temper went full rage and he ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rage	amod
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past	his temper	fr	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rage=Theme
2	run off	past	temper		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	temper		his = he		nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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