Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Ok, so what did the furniture shout when the boy turned up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: furniture, boy · What happens: shout, turn up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	8 shout	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 shout	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 shout	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 furniture	det
7	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	nsubj
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 turned	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	the furniture						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	turn up	past	the boy						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

"Hi!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hi	punct
2	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hi	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hi	punct

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

Option 2

"Oh!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Thankee! thankee!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
2	Thankee	Thankee	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
4	thankee	thankee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thankee	flat:foreign
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thankee	punct

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

Option 4

"Hush, hush now!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hush	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	4 hush	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
4	hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hush	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hush	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush in a quote	imperative	you not said here				now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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