Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

so the robbers went mad in the hall and drank all the grub?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: go, drink · To what, where: hall, grub

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 813 «Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is tossed into a gutter, sails in an egg-shell, and is crushed by a cart.» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 grub	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grub	det
13	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the robbers			the hall		mad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
2	drink	past	the robbers not said here	all grub					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grub=Patient

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

yeah, the wine and ale and all the grub from the kitchen, the whole lot

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wine	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wine	det
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ale	cc
6	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grub	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 grub	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grub	det
10	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grub	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lot	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lot	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lot	amod
17	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the wine and ale, the whole lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wine	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wine	det
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ale	cc
6	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lot	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lot	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lot	amod
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they drank the wine and ale and smashed up the whole hall, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wine	det
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ale	cc
8	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wine	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smashed	cc
10	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 smashed	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hall	amod
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smashed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	the wine and ale					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
2	smash up	past	they not said here	the whole hall and mate					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme

Option 4

yeah, they ate the cake and pies, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cake	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pies	cc
8	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cake	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pies	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	the cake and pies					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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