Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks…

did the owl dude really find the bell or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl dude · What happens: do, find · To what, where: owl dude, bell

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 800 «Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks on alone, deeper into the wood after the sound» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dude	compound
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 bell	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the owl dude					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
2	find	infinitive	the owl dude not said here	the bell					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=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

nope, he just wrote boring essays about an owl for the whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wrote	advmod
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 essays	amod
7	essays	essay	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 owl	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 owl	det
10	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 essays	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 year	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 year	amod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	boring essays			year	about a owl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent essay=Recipient about owl=Topic

Option 2

nope, he just wrote long papers on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wrote	advmod
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 papers	amod
7	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	long papers		it			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme on it=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he just wrote boring essays about an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wrote	advmod
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 essays	amod
7	essays	essay	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 owl	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 owl	det
10	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 essays	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	boring essays				about a owl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent essay=Recipient about owl=Topic

Option 4

nah, he only wrote dull reports on owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wrote	advmod
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reports	amod
7	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 owls	case
9	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	dull reports		owls			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent report=Theme on owl=Destination

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