Test 14 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…
Lowkey, why did Jesper hate the beetles' side?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jesper · What happens: hate · To what, where: side
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hate | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lowkey | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 hate | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hate | aux |
| 5 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hate | nsubj |
| 6 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beetles | det |
| 8 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 beetles | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hate | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past · do-support | Jesper | the beetles's side | Lowkey vocative | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
He never heard anyone praise them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 heard | advmod |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 praise | nsubj |
| 5 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 praise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | He | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | praise | infinitive | anyone | them = they | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2
He never heard anyone praise them, so he thought they were not worth helping at all
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 heard | advmod |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 praise | nsubj |
| 5 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 praise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 thought | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worth | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worth | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 worth | advmod |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 worth | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 helping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | He | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | praise | infinitive | anyone | them = they | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | they | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | gerund | they not said here | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
He never heard anyone praise them, and the beetles had insulted him and his family many times
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 heard | advmod |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 praise | nsubj |
| 5 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 praise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 insulted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 insulted | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beetles | det |
| 10 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insulted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 insulted | aux |
| 12 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 insulted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 family | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | conj |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insulted | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | He | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | praise | infinitive | anyone | them = they | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | insult | past · perfect · passive | the beetles | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
Option 4
He thought beetles were rude and loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loud | cc |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rude | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | He | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | beetles | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | beetles not said here | tree rules |
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