Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

why's the dude so salty about modern books?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dude	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 books	case
8	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 books	amod
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 salty	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dude					why property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause he hates those basic everyday tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hates	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 tales	det
5	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tales	amod
6	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tales	amod
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	cause	that basic everyday tales					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus

Option 2

cause he hates modern novels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hates	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 novels	amod
5	novels	novel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	cause	modern novels					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer novel=Stimulus

Option 3

cause he wants the old learned books back, not those basic everyday tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 old	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 learned	nsubj
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wants	ccomp
7	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learned	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tales	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tales	advmod
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 tales	det
12	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tales	amod
13	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tales	amod
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	cause						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	learn back	past	the old	books					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

cause they're too silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 silly	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 silly	advmod
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					silly property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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