Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

did he think he was seriously ill or just tipsy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 277 «Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wanders old Copenhagen and is taken for a foreigner» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
6	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	7 ill	advmod
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 tipsy	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 tipsy	advmod
10	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ill	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	ill, seriously property	tree rules
3	be		he 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

only tipsy, though he insisted he was seriously and mortally ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 tipsy	advmod
2	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 insisted	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 insisted	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 insisted	nsubj
6	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tipsy	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seriously	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seriously	cop
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 insisted	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ill	cc
11	mortally	mortally	ADV	_	12 ill	advmod
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seriously	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	past	he		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	seriously property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here	mortally property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

ill, but blamed the punch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blamed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 blamed	cc
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 punch	det
6	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past		the punch					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Theme

Option 3

tipsy, but blamed illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blamed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 blamed	cc
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obj

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

Option 4

ill, though he blamed the punch he had drunk at the ferry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blamed	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blamed	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 blamed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blamed	nsubj
5	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 punch	det
7	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drunk	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drunk	aux
10	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 punch	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 ferry	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ferry	det
13	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drunk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	he	the punch					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Theme
2	drink	past · perfect	he	the punch not said here		the ferry			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Patient

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