Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

Why didn't the watchman ring the bell, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: watchman · What happens: not ring · To what, where: bell

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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=Int	6 ring	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ring	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 watchman	det
5	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nsubj
6	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ring	past · do-support	the watchman	the bell				bruv obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

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

He reckoned the bell was broken, mate

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	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	past · passive		the bell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't wanna wake folks in their beds

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	5 wake	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wake	advmod
4	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wake	dep
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wake	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 beds	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beds	nmod:poss
9	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wake	past · do-support	He	folks		folks's beds			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent folk=Patient

Option 3

He didn't fancy waking the lieutenant

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 fancy	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fancy	advmod
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fancy	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lieutenant	det
7	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fancy	past · do-support	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	wake	gerund	He not said here	the lieutenant					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lieutenant=Patient

Option 4

Couldn't find the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 find	advmod
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could		the bell					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Topic

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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