Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

Did the servant spot his boots were dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: servant, boots · What happens: spot, be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spot	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spot	nsubj
4	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dodgy	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dodgy	cop
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spot	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past · do-support	the servant						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	is	past	servant's boots					dodgy property	tree rules

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

Dunno, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were proper old, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					old property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they were proper old and falling apart, innit, pure ancient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 falling	cc
8	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 old	conj
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 falling	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ancient	punct
13	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ancient	amod
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	old property	tree rules
2	fall apart	gerund	they not said here	apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	be		they not said here		tree rules

Option 4

Nah, they were just dusty, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dusty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dusty	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dusty	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 dusty	advmod
6	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dusty	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 dusty	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					dusty property	tree rules

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