Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

Ngl, what did the dwarf say about diss-ing little things?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, dwarf · What happens: do, say, e · To what, where: little things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 ing	mark
9	diss	diss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ing	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 diss	punct
11	ing	e	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 say	ccomp
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the dwarf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	e	gerund		little things	tree rules

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

Be nice, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 nice	cop
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fam	punct
4	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

Chill out, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Chill	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chill	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill out	imperative	you not said here					bro vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't dis any creature, however tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dis	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 dis	advmod
3	dis	dis	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 creature	det
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dis	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	8 tiny	advmod
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dis	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dis	imperative · do-support	you not said here	any creature					tree rules

Option 4

Don't mock little things, however small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 mock	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 mock	advmod
3	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mock	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mock	imperative · do-support	you not said here	little things					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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