Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

ok but what did the hangings rhyme say, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hangings · What happens: do, rhyme, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hangings	det
6	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rhyme	nsubj
7	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rhyme	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proper	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 proper	case
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rhyme	present	the hangings	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the hangings not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Gold fades, leather stays.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fades	nsubj
2	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
4	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fades	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fades	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	Gold						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	present	leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 decays	det
2	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decays	compound
3	decays	decay	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
5	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 stays	cc
6	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leather	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hog	case
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decays	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 decays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	hog's leather						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Its gilt is gone, yet hog's leather still stays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gilt	nmod:poss
2	gilt	gilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stays	punct
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	11 stays	cc
7	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leather	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hog	case
9	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stays	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 stays	advmod
11	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its gilt					gone property	tree rules
2	stay	present	hog's leather				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The gold is gone, but leather still stays here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stays	cc
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 stays	advmod
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the gold					gone property	tree rules
2	stay	present	leather			here	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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