Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

bruh, why did the farrier basically laugh at the beetle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, laugh · To what, where: farrier

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farrier	det
6	farrier	farrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 laugh	advmod
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 beetle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beetle	det
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the farrier					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farrier=Eventuality
2	laugh	present						at the beetle; basically property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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

He thought the beetle was joking about gold

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joking	aux
6	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	joke speech: other	past · progressive	the beetle					about gold	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gold=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He thought the beetle was asking for a pair of shoes meant for the Emperor's own horse

The tree, 18 words

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asking	aux
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 pair	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pair	det
9	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asking	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 shoes	case
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pair	nmod
12	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shoes	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Emperor	det
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 horse	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Emperor	case
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 horse	amod
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	the beetle		for a pair of shoes	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	participle		shoes not said here	for the Emperor's own horse	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for horse=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He thought the beetle wanted gold for a bug

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bug	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bug	det
9	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want	past	the beetle	gold				for a bug	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 4

He thought the beetle wanted the gold shoes because he was a thief who had stolen from the palace

The tree, 19 words

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoes	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	compound
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 thief	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thief	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thief	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thief	det
13	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	xcomp
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stolen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stolen	aux
16	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thief	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want	past	the beetle	the gold shoes		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=Theme
3	is a not said to happen	past	beetle	a thief		tree rules
4	steal	past · perfect	a thief		the palace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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