Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Whose comrade was the pewter soldier missing, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: comrade · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: pewter soldier

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 comrade	nmod:poss
2	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soldier	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
5	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the pewter soldier's comrade	the pewter soldier					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

his comrade, the tin drummer boy who fell down the crevice

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 comrade	nmod:poss
2	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	compound
6	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	compound
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comrade	appos
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	acl:relcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 fell	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crevice	det
12	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the tin drummer boy	the crevice					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his comrade, the other soldier

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 comrade	nmod:poss
2	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comrade	appos

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his brother, the drummer boy

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	compound
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj

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

Option 4

the other soldier of his company, the one lost in the wars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 company	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 company	nmod:poss
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 one	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wars	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wars	det
13	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		the one not said here		the wars			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in war=Eventuality

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