Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…
Did the old hen-wife get a tip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old hen wife · What happens: do, get · To what, where: tip
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 4 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hen | punct |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tip | det |
| 9 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the old hen wife | a tip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tip=Stimulus |
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
Nah, he gave her nothing, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | he | nothing | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nothing=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a guinea, mate, a proper tip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 guinea | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guinea | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guinea | det |
| 4 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guinea | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tip | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tip | amod |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guinea | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, a guinea, mate, a proper tip and a bit of bread too
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 guinea | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guinea | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guinea | det |
| 4 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guinea | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tip | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tip | amod |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guinea | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bit | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tip | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bread | case |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bit | nmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 guinea | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a penny, mate, a small tip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 penny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 penny | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 penny | det |
| 4 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 penny | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tip | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tip | amod |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 penny | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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