Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

did the carved trumpeters on the door actually blow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: carved trumpeters · What happens: carve, blow

This is test 9 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blow	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trumpeters	det
3	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 trumpeters	amod
4	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blow	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trumpeters	nmod
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 blow	advmod
9	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blow	past · do-support	the carved trumpeters on the door					actually property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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, they blew a loud note every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 note	det
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 note	amod
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	they	a loud note			morning		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent note=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, they blew every morning, all the way to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl:unmarked
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	they	all way	the sea		morning		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sea=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were carved, but it looked like they blew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 carved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carved	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	aux:pass
5	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 blew	case
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blew	nsubj
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	carve	past · passive		they	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past	it		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	blow	past	they		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, they were carved and never blew, but it looked as if they blew a loud Trateratra for the sun

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 carved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carved	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	aux:pass
5	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 blew	advmod
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 blew	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 blew	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 blew	nsubj
16	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Trateratra	det
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Trateratra	amod
19	Trateratra	Trateratra	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 blew	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 sun	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carve	past · passive		they		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not blow	past				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	look	past	it			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	blow	past	they	a loud Trateratra	for the sun	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trateratra=Product for sun=Beneficiary

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