Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

Why was he dropping his gold everywhere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: drop · To what, where: gold

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dropping	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropping	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropping	nsubj
4	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropping	obj
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 dropping	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dropping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · progressive	he	his gold				everywhere property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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

He was tired, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tired	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					mate vocative; tired property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was greedy, innit, pure greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 greedy	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 greedy	punct
7	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 greedy	amod
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greedy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					greedy property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 3

He was greedy, innit, and his pockets were far too full, pure greedy

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 full	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pockets	nmod:poss
9	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 full	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 full	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 too	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 full	advmod
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greedy	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
15	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 greedy	amod
16	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 full	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	greedy property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive			tree rules
3	is	past	his pockets	full property	tree rules
4	be		his pockets not said here		tree rules

Option 4

He was just really excited about the gold, mate, and tripped on the stairs

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 excited	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 excited	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 excited	advmod
5	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 gold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excited	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tripped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tripped	cc
13	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 stairs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stairs	det
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about the gold and mate; excited property	tree rules
2	trip	past	He not said here			the stairs			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory

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