Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…
wait so the watchman croaked, sus or what
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, watchman · What happens: wait, croak · To what, where: sus
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 croaked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 watchman | det |
| 4 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 croaked | nsubj |
| 5 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sus | punct |
| 7 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 croaked | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 croaked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | croak | past | the watchman | sus | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sus=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, proper dead, and they took him to the hospital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | amod |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hospital | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hospital | det |
| 12 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | they | him = he | the hospital | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hospital=Destination |
Option 2
yeah, he got up and went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | past | he not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, dead as a doornail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 doornail | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 doornail | det |
| 6 | doornail | doornail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dead | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, he just fainted on the steps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fainted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fainted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 fainted | advmod |
| 5 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fainted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | he | on the steps | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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