Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…

the falling star, he didn't care cos there's loads more, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: falling star, loads · What happens: fall, not care, be · To what, where: cos

This is test 10 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 care	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 star	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 care	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 care	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 care	advmod
8	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 care	obj
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 care	conj
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 's	nsubj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 's	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 care	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 care	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not care	past · do-support	the falling star	cos		tree rules
3	does	present	loads		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

yeah, he didn't care, but he wanted the shoes to fall too, he said

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 care	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wanted	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fall	mark
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 fall	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	he		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	want	past	he	the shoes	tree rules
3	fall not said to happen	to-infinitive	the shoes not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 2

nah, he wanted it for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	it				for himself = he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

nah, he cared loads cos there's barely any left in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cared	nsubj
4	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	nsubj
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cared	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 's	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 left	cop
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	8 's	advmod
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 left	det
11	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sky	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	he	loads					tree rules
2	is a	present		any left		the sky			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, always enough left, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 left	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle						always, enough property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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