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

so the host paid him a bushel to keep quiet? lowkey genius

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: host · What happens: pay, keep · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ 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 paid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 host	det
3	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bushel	det
7	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	advcl
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
12	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 genius	amod
13	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the host		him = he				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bushel=Asset
2	keep	to-infinitive	the host not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

yup, hush money, no snitching, and a free room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snitching	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 snitching	det
7	snitching	snitching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 room	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 room	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 room	det
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 room	amod
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush	infinitive	yup	money and no snitching				a free room obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2

yup, hush money, so no snitching to the cops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snitching	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 snitching	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 snitching	det
8	snitching	snitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hush	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cops	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cops	det
11	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snitching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush	infinitive	yup	money					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	snitch speech: other	gerund	yup not said here		the cops				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to cop=Recipient

Option 3

yup, a gift for the trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gift	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gift	det
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	appos
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 trip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trip	det
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yup, hush money, no snitching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hush	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snitching	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 snitching	det
7	snitching	snitching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush	infinitive	yup	money and no snitching					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent money=Patient

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