Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…

Was Little Klaus actually drowned, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Klaus · What happens: be, drown · To what, where: Little Klaus

This is test 7 · ★ 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	3 Klaus	cop
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Klaus	amod
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 drowned	advmod
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 drowned	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drowned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Little Klaus					tree rules
2	drown	past	Little Klaus					actually property	vn poison-42.2 «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

No, he was driving his cattle home along the road to the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 driving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 driving	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 driving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 driving	aux
5	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cattle	nmod:poss
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 driving	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 driving	advmod
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driving	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 farm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farm	det
14	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past · progressive	he	his cattle		the road		to the farm; home property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme along road=Destination to farm=Initial_Location

Option 2

No, he was resting by the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 resting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 resting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resting	aux
5	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	he					by the mill	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by mill=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he drowned in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drowned	nsubj
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	he			the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, he was driving his cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 driving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 driving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 driving	aux
5	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cattle	nmod:poss
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past · progressive	he	his cattle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme

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