Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

did the shopkeeper actually laugh at him or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, laugh · To what, where: shopkeeper

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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 shopkeeper	det
3	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laugh	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the shopkeeper					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Eventuality
2	laugh	present						at him = he; actually property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, he laughed proper hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					hard, properly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he mocked him loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mocked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocked	nsubj
4	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocked	obj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 mocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	he	him = he				loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he didn't laugh at all, he just looked a bit puzzled and sent him off politely

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 laugh	advmod
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 laugh	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puzzled	obl:unmarked
15	puzzled	puzzled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sent	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 sent	compound:prt
20	politely	politely	ADV	_	17 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past · do-support	he		all		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	he			puzzled property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	send off	past	he not said here	him = he		politely property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he laughed so hard he nearly fell off his stool and called his mates over

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 stool	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stool	nmod:poss
12	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mates	nmod:poss
16	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 called	xcomp
17	over	over	ADV	_	14 called	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he		hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall off	past	he	his stool	nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stool=Extent
3	call over speech: assert	past	he not said here	his mates	over property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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