Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

did the little boy send the old man something or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy · What happens: send · To what, where: something

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
5	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 something	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	compound
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 send	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 something	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	the little boy	something					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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

Yeah, one of his pewter soldiers, carried across the street by the errand man

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soldiers	nmod:poss
6	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldiers	compound
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
9	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 soldiers	acl
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	compound
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle		his pewter soldiers not said here		the street		by the errand man	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he kept everything, but sent a pink flower over with a rhyme on it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 kept	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flower	det
10	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flower	amod
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obj
12	over	over	ADV	_	8 sent	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 rhyme	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rhyme	det
15	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rhyme	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	everything					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	send	past	he not said here	a pink flower				with a rhyme on rhyme; over property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one of his pewter soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soldiers	nmod:poss
6	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldiers	compound
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, one of his painted drums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 drums	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 drums	nmod:poss
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 drums	amod
7	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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