Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Why did the soldier, like, say he couldn't bear it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: do, say, not bear · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	8 say	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bear	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bear	advmod
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bear	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	the soldier	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not bear	could	he	soldier	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

the house was too lonely and the furniture too sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 lonely	advmod
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sad	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 furniture	det
8	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sad	nsubj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lonely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the house					lonely property	tree rules
2	be		the furniture						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it made him feel ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

he was too old now

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 old	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

too lonely and melancholy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 lonely	advmod
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 melancholy	cc
4	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lonely	conj

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

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