Test 5 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Did Jesper actually help the ants or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jesper · What happens: help · To what, where: ants

This is test 5 · ★ 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	2 Jesper	aux
2	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ants	det
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 help	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Jesper	the ants				actually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Beneficiary

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, he helped the beetles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beetles	det
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he		the beetles				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Beneficiary

Option 2

Yeah, he helped them, fr, the ants came when he called them

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fr	punct
7	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ants	det
10	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 called	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	past	he	them = they	fr obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2	come	past	the ants			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	he	ants = ant		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he helped them, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fr	punct
7	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he	them = they				fr obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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