Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

Did the poet say he'd warn people about him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poet · What happens: say, warn · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poet	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poet	det
3	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 warn	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 warn	aux
7	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warn	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 people	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the poet						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	warn speech: warn	would	poet		people				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Recipient about he=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he's telling all the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 telling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kids	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	he		all kids				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, he's gonna write a big poster about him and put it up everywhere

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 write	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 write	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 write	cop
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 poster	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poster	amod
9	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 poster	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 write	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
16	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					write property	tree rules
2	put up	infinitive	he not said here	poster				everywhere property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 3

Yeah, he's warning the grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 warning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warning	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warning	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	aux
5	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ups	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present · progressive	he	the grown ups					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he's just sleeping now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleeping	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sleeping	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sleeping	advmod
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	he				now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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