Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

bro, what was the merchant's pops at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: pops

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pops	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 pops	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pops	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pops	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 merchant	case
8	pops	pop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 pops	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro and the merchant's pops	the merchant's pops					tree rules

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

A grain merchant, honest and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 merchant	compound
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honest	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 honest	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A cattle dealer, honest and hustling, who sold horses at every fair in the district

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dealer	det
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dealer	compound
3	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sold	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dealer	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hustling	cc
7	hustling	hustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 honest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sold	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sold	nsubj
10	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 fair	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fair	det
14	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sold	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 district	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 district	det
17	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hustle	gerund	a cattle dealer not said here						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sell	past	a cattle dealer	horses		every fair		in the district	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at fair=Asset

Option 3

A poor clerk, honest and hustling, who had worked in the town office for many years

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clerk	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clerk	amod
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clerk	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hustling	cc
7	hustling	hustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 honest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worked	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 worked	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worked	aux
11	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 clerk	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 office	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 office	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 office	compound
15	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hustle	gerund							vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	work	past · perfect	a poor clerk				year	in the town office	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in office=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A cattle dealer, honest and hustling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dealer	det
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dealer	compound
3	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honest	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hustling	cc
7	hustling	hustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 honest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hustle	gerund							vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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