Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

Was the poor kid chuffed to walk with the king's son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff, walk · To what, where: poor kid

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kid	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kid	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chuffed	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the poor kid		tree rules
2	chuff	participle	the poor kid not said here		tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive		with the king's son	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

he was cold in his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 boots	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his boots		cold property	tree rules

Option 2

he was proud of his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proud	cop
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 boots	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of his boots; proud property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was ashamed of his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ashamed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ashamed	cop
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 boots	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ashamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of his boots; ashamed property	tree rules

Option 4

he was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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