Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…

Was Big Klaus really trying to flog his granny to the chemist, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big · What happens: be, try, flog · To what, where: Big, granny

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Big	cop
2	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trying	nsubj
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Big	flat
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 trying	advmod
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flog	mark
7	flog	flog	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 granny	nmod:poss
9	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flog	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 chemist	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chemist	det
12	chemist	chemist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flog	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chemist	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Big		tree rules
2	try	gerund	Big			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	flog not said to happen	to-infinitive	Big not said here	Big's granny	to the chemist and mate result	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent granny=Patient to chemist=Result

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

No, he only moved her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 moved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moved	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moved	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	past	he	her = she				away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he took her body to sell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	her body					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	sell	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, he sold her old clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothes	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	her old clothes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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