Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

ngl why was the old man in the plush breeches so lonely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, old man · What happens: be, breech · To what, where: old man, plush

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 ngl	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breeches	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 plush	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plush	det
9	plush	plush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
10	breeches	breech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 lonely	advmod
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 breeches	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 breeches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the old man		the plush			tree rules
2	breech	present	the old man					lonely 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody ever came over to see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 came	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come over	past	Nobody				ever	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

His garden had died in the frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 garden	nmod:poss
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	aux
4	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 frost	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frost	det
7	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	His garden					in the frost	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in frost=Attribute

Option 3

Nobody ever came over to see him, and his breeches were too old to wear

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 came	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 old	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breeches	nmod:poss
11	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wear	mark
16	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 old	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come over	past	Nobody		ever	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	him = he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	past	his breeches			old property	tree rules
4	wear	to-infinitive	his breeches not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He had lost his only friend, the errand man, to the sea last winter

The tree, 14 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 winter	amod
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	He	his only friend and the errand man			winter	to the sea	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality

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