Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Did the cook chop open the fish with a big knife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook chop · What happens: open · To what, where: fish

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chop	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	compound
4	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 knife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knife	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knife	amod
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past · do-support	the cook chop	the fish				with a big knife	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fish=Patient with knife=Instrument

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, she cut it open, proper gruesome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cut	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 open	conj
9	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 open	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	it				open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 2

Nah, she used a little pair of scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pair	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pair	amod
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 scissors	case
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a little pair of scissors					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, she did, bare grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bare	aux
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
6	bare	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bare	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · do-support						grim property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she sliced it right open, bare grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sliced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sliced	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sliced	nsubj
4	sliced	slice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sliced	obj
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sliced	xcomp
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bare	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	conj
10	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slice	past	she	it				right property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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