Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

Dude, what happened to the dictionary bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: happen

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 bro	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bro	det
7	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bro	compound
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Dude					to the dictionary bro	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

read the book aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 read	obj
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the book				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2

forgot every word he knew and could only nod at the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 forgot	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 word	acl:relcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nod	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 nod	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 nod	advmod
9	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 forgot	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nod	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past		every word		tree rules
2	know	past	he	every word not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	nod	could			at the Princess	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

forgot every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past		every word					tree rules

Option 4

tried to read the whole dictionary aloud and then fainted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 read	mark
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 tried	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dictionary	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dictionary	amod
6	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fainted	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 fainted	advmod
10	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole dictionary		aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictionary=Topic
3	faint	past		then		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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