Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Those brothers were well full of themselves, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: they

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 full	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 they	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 they	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 full	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that brothers					of brothers = brother; full, well property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		they					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they reckoned they were dead clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					clever property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, they thought they were proper clever and kept showing off their learning to everyone at the house

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clever	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
11	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 showing	compound:prt
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 learning	nmod:poss
14	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showing	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 showing	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they				clever, properly property	tree rules
3	keep	past	they not said here					tree rules
4	show off	gerund	they not said here	their learning	everyone	the house		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent learning=Topic to everyone=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they thought they were proper clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					clever, properly property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they strutted about like they owned the place and thought they were dead clever at everything

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 strutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strutted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strutted	nsubj
4	strutted	strut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 strutted	advmod
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 owned	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 owned	nsubj
8	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strutted	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owned	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strutted	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clever	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 clever	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clever	amod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 everything	case
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strut	past	they			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	own	past	they	the place			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	they not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	they		everything	clever property	tree rules

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