Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

Why was the poet crying on the floor, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poet · What happens: cry · To what, where: floor

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 crying	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poet	det
4	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	nsubj
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 crying	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the poet			the floor			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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 it hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cuz	appos
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	Cuz						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Cuz the wine was bad, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wine	det
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cuz	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wine	Cuz not said here				bad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz the arrow hit him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arrow	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arrow	det
3	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the Cuz arrow	him = he				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cuz he was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cuz	Cuz not said here				sad property	tree rules

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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