Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…

yo did u see the watchman just sit there staring at the moon like a total zombie

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, watchman · What happens: see, sit, stare · To what, where: watchman

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 279 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman flies to the moon in a wink, and his body dies on the street» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watchman	det
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	xcomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sit	advmod
10	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sit	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 moon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moon	det
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 staring	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 zombie	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 zombie	det
16	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 zombie	amod
17	zombie	zombie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	yo	the watchman			tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	the watchman not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stare	gerund	the watchman not said here			like a total zombie; at the moon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=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

yeah, he just sat there all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, and then he just went down like a sack of spuds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 sack	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 spuds	case
13	spuds	spud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	he				then	like a sack of spuds; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

nah, he was just tired lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tired property	tree rules

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