Test 10 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Mate, how many bars did Hans count before he gave up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, he · What happens: count, give up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 count	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bars	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bars	amod
5	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mate	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 count	aux
7	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 count	nsubj
8	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 count	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 gave	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past · do-support	Mate and many bars						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	give up	past	he						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He got to five hundred and seventy

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	5 hundred	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 got	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seventy	cc
7	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	five hundred					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus

Option 2

He got to five hundred and twenty

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	5 hundred	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 got	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 twenty	cc
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	five hundred					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus

Option 3

He kept counting for hours until he was exhausted and sat down at the end of the room

The tree, 18 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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 exhausted	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exhausted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 exhausted	aux:pass
9	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	count	gerund	He not said here		hour	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	exhaust	past · passive		he		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	sit down	past	He not said here		at the end of the room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He counted loads, then gave up after the bars started looking the same to him

The tree, 15 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	2 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 gave	advmod
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 counted	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 started	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bars	det
10	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 started	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	count	past	He	loads			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
2	give up	past	He not said here			then	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	past	the bars				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look	gerund	the bars not said here	the same	him = he		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute

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