Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

Yo, why'd the old poet even let that soggy kid in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old poet · What happens: let in · To what, where: soggy kid

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 308 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets in a wet boy who shoots him with an arrow» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 let	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poet	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poet	amod
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 kid	det
11	soggy	soggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kid	amod
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	would	the old poet	that soggy kid					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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

Cuz he thought the kid was a cute little dude who needed a warm fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dude	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dude	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dude	det
8	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dude	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dude	amod
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 needed	nsubj
12	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dude	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fire	amod
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Cuz		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the kid	a cute little dude	tree rules
3	need	past	a cute little dude	a warm fire	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Honestly he was lonely and wanted to hear the kid's stories, bruh, for real

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 lonely	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stories	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 kid	case
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hear	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lonely	punct
14	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 lonely	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 real	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 real	case
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lonely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		honestly, lonely property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the kid's stories		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	be		he not said here			tree rules

Option 3

He just wanted some company

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	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	some company					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz he felt bad for him, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruh	punct
8	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 felt	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Cuz					for him = he; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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