Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

the old rat with the chopped tail, was he the boss?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: old rat · What happens: chop, be · To what, where: boss

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rat	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rat	amod
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boss	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 tail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tail	det
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rat	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rat	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boss	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boss	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boss	det
12	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	participle							vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the old rat with the chopped tail	the boss					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

yeah, the others agreed with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 agreed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the others					with him = he	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

Option 2

yeah, he was the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 boss	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boss	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boss	det
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the boss					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, his family backed up every word he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 backed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 backed	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 family	nmod:poss
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 backed	nsubj
5	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 backed	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 backed	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back up	participle	his family	every word					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	family	every word not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

no, just an old rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 rat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 rat	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rat	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rat	amod
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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