Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…
Did the Soldier chop her head off, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Soldier chop
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | 4 chop | det |
| 3 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chop | compound |
| 4 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 off | compound |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 chop | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 real | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 real | case |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Did | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Soldier chop | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chop=Eventuality |
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 tied her up and took her to the king for justice, bruv
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 tied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tied | nsubj |
| 4 | tied | tie | 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 tied | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tied | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tied | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 justice | case |
| 14 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bruv | punct |
| 16 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | past | he | her = she | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | he not said here | her = she | the king for justice and bruv | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to king=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, he sorted her out and cut off her head with his sword, bruv
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sorted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorted | nsubj |
| 4 | sorted | sort | 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 sorted | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sorted | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cut | cc |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sorted | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bruv | punct |
| 16 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | past | he | her = she | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | he not said here | her head with his sword and bruv | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 3
Nah, he just ran off, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | he | bruv | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he sorted her out, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sorted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorted | nsubj |
| 4 | sorted | sort | 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 sorted | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sorted | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | past | he | her = she | bruv obl | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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