Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Did the barber's mates have a proper giggle at him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mates · What happens: have · To what, where: proper giggle

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	5 mates	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barber	det
3	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mates	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 barber	case
5	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giggle	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giggle	amod
9	giggle	giggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the barber's mates	a proper giggle				at barber	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giggle=Patient

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

a titter ran round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 titter	det
2	titter	titter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a titter					round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they all had a proper giggle at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giggle	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 giggle	amod
6	giggle	giggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a proper giggle				at him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giggle=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a loud titter ran round the whole shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 titter	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 titter	amod
3	titter	titter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	8 shop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shop	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shop	amod
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a loud titter			the whole shop			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round shop=Trajectory

Option 4

a laugh ran round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 laugh	det
2	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	a laugh					round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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