Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…

that drunk geezer was well out of order

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: drunk geezer · What happens: be · To what, where: order

This is test 4 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 geezer	det
2	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 geezer	amod
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 order	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 order	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 order	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 order	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 order	case
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that drunk geezer			order		well 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

yeah, he tweaked the watchman's nose and he dropped dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tweaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tweaked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tweaked	nsubj
4	tweaked	tweak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watchman	det
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 watchman	case
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tweaked	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dropped	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tweaked	conj
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dropped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	past	he	the watchman's nose					vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer
2	drop	past	he					dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he was just having a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 having	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 having	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 having	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 having	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 having	advmod
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laugh	det
8	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	he	a laugh					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient

Option 3

yeah, he shoved him and he fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shoved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shoved	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoved	nsubj
4	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shoved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	past	he	him = he					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fall	past	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he tweaked the watchman's nose and then ran off down the street

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tweaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tweaked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tweaked	nsubj
4	tweaked	tweak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watchman	det
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 watchman	case
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tweaked	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ran	advmod
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tweaked	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweak	past	he	the watchman's nose					vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer
2	run off	past	he not said here			the street	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down street=Trajectory

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