Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

Did the goose really talk, or was Jem just making it up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goose, Jem · What happens: do, talk, make up · To what, where: goose

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goose	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goose	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 making	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 making	aux
9	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 making	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 making	advmod
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Did	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 making	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 making	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the goose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Eventuality
2	talk	infinitive	the goose not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make up	past · progressive	Jem	goose	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

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

Talked, clear as anything, in rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Talked	advcl
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Talked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rhyme	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rhyme	case
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past				rhyme		as anything	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Talked, clear as anything, in rhyme, while the whole market crowd listened in shock

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Talked	advcl
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 clear	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rhyme	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rhyme	case
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crowd	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 crowd	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crowd	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crowd	amod
13	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crowd	compound
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talked	conj
15	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 crowd	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 shock	case
17	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 listened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past				rhyme			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	participle		the whole market crowd not said here				in shock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shock=Theme

Option 3

Jem made it up, just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 joke	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Jem	it				a joke obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 4

Talked, clear as anything, in rhyme, and then it asked Jem for some bread

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Talked	advcl
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 clear	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rhyme	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rhyme	case
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 asked	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Talked	conj
14	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	iobj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 bread	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 bread	det
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past				rhyme			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	rhyme		Jem		then	for some bread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient

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