Test 12 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away…
what did Hans reckon about the Miller's ideas, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hans · What happens: reckon, innit
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2037 «Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away everything and works until he is worn out» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 ideas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Miller | det |
| 7 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Miller | case |
| 9 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reckon | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckon | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | Hans | about the Miller's ideas | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | Hans not said here | 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
he'd never think
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 | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | would | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
he'd never have ideas like them
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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ideas | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | would | he | ideas | like ideas = idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
Option 3
he was sure he'd never have such fine thoughts
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 | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have | would | he | such fine thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
Option 4
he could not have such ideas
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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ideas | amod |
| 6 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | could | he | such ideas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
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