Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

wait, did the doctor help him out at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, doctor · What happens: wait, help out · To what, where: him, all

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 help	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 help	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help out	past · do-support	the doctor		him = he	all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer

nope, the doctor had gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the doctor						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nope, the doctor had gone off to the far city long before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 gone	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
10	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 city	amod
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 before	advmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · perfect	the doctor					to the far city; before property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes, the doctor came back later and did help him after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the doctor					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	past · do-support	the doctor not said here		doctor		after all		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4

yes, but only a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 little	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 little	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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