Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…
did the poet homie say he gets paid when old?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poet homie · What happens: say, pay · To what, where: homie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 homie | det |
| 3 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 homie | compound |
| 4 | homie | homie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | aux:pass |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 old | mark |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 paid | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the poet homie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | present · passive | homie | old property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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
yes, a pension from the state when you are old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 pension | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pension | det |
| 4 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pension | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 old | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 old | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pension | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | old property | tree rules |
Option 2
yes, a salary as a poet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 salary | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 salary | det |
| 4 | salary | salary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 poet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 poet | det |
| 7 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 salary | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, a wage when tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wage | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wage | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wage | det |
| 4 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wage | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a pension when old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 pension | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pension | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pension | det |
| 4 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pension | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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