Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

was the poor boy proper dressed for meeting a king's son?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, dress, meet · To what, where: poor boy, son

This is test 4 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	nsubj:pass
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 dressed	advmod
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 meeting	mark
8	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dressed	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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	8 meeting	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the poor boy		tree rules
2	dress	participle · passive	the poor boy	properly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	meet	gerund	a king's son		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent

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

Nah, he had wooden shoes and a jacket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jacket	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jacket	det
9	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	wooden shoes and a jacket					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he had wooden shoes and a jacket, and nothing grand at all for the king's son

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jacket	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jacket	det
9	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoes	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nothing	cc
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	conj
13	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 grand	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 son	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	wooden shoes and a jacket					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he wore a fine silk coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coat	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	compound
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	a fine silk coat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he had a silver cap, velvet breeches and shiny gloves for the meeting

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cap	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	compound
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 breeches	punct
9	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breeches	compound
10	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cap	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gloves	cc
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gloves	amod
13	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cap	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 meeting	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meeting	det
16	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a silver cap and shiny gloves				for the meeting	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient

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