Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

How come the wooden shoes were a bit mad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wooden shoes · What happens: come, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mad	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mad	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl:unmarked
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the wooden shoes					a bit obl:unmarked; mad 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

he was poor and had them

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 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					poor property	tree rules
2	have	past	he not said here	them = they					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

they were cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheap	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheap	cop
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

he liked them

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	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 4

they were too big for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					for him = he; big 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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