Test 10 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Did the ants have a big army left after the fight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ants · What happens: have, leave · To what, where: big army

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ants	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ants	det
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 army	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 army	amod
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 army	acl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 fight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fight	det
11	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the ants	a big army					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
2	leave	participle		a big army not said here			after the fight		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

Nah, they were all gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

Nah, they were way smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod

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

Option 3

Nah, they were way smaller, the beetles had wiped out most of the army

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wiped	nsubj:pass
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beetles	det
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wiped	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wiped	aux
11	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 wiped	compound:prt
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 wiped	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 army	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 army	det
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	way					tree rules
2	wipe out	past · perfect · passive		way					vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme most=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, huge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 huge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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