Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Why did the little boy chuck him in the stove, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy · What happens: chuck · To what, where: him, stove

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chuck	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	nsubj
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stove	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stove	det
10	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 chuck	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past · do-support	the little boy	him = he		the stove			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stove=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

No idea, the imp was probably behind it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 behind	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imp	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 imp	det
5	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 behind	cop
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 behind	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 behind	obl

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

Option 2

Dunno, maybe the cook made him do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Dunno	cook				maybe property	tree rules
2	do	infinitive	cook not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

No idea, the boy was probably just bored and the imp in the box got him going, honestly

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bored	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bored	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bored	cop
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 bored	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 bored	advmod
9	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 imp	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 imp	det
12	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 box	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 imp	nmod
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bored	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	obj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 got	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bored	punct
20	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	9 bored	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	no idea		bored, honestly, probably property	tree rules
2	get	past	the imp in the box	boy		tree rules
3	go	gerund	boy not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No clue, the nursery-maid asked for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 clue	det
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clue	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 nursery	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	no clue					for maid	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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