Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…
bro the watch got home to his mum and kids, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: get
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 watch | det |
| 3 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kids | cc |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mum | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | bro | to bro's mum and kids result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mum=Result |
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
nah, he went to the pub instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pub | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pub | det |
| 7 | pub | pub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the pub | instead property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pub=Initial_Location |
Option 2
yeah, he got home to his mum and kids and had a cup of tea
The tree, 15 words
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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kids | cc |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mum | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cup | det |
| 14 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tea | case |
| 16 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cup | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | to his mum and kids result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mum=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | he not said here | a cup of tea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was on the steps the whole time, dreaming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 steps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 steps | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 steps | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steps | det |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steps | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dreaming | punct |
| 12 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 steps | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | on the steps and the whole time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dream | gerund | he not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, he got home and saw the kids
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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kids | det |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he not said here | the kids | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus |
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