Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

The lizards were well sound about the goblin, weren't they? What did they say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lizards · What happens: be, not be, say · To what, where: they · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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

Sentence 1: The lizards were well sound about the goblin, weren't they?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizards	det
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sound	advmod
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 goblin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goblin	det
8	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 they	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goblin	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 they	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 they	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sound	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lizards					sound, well property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		they				about the goblin	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.

Sentence 2: What did they say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	lizards = lizard						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Oh, how pleased I was with the old goblin and his big hat, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 pleased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 goblin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 goblin	cop
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 goblin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goblin	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goblin	amod
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hat	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hat	nmod:poss
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hat	amod
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goblin	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goblin	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					with the old goblin and his big hat; mate vocative	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Oh, how pleased I was with the old goblin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 pleased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 goblin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 goblin	cop
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 goblin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goblin	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goblin	amod
10	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					with the old goblin	tree rules

Option 3

Oh, how sad we were for the goblin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sad	advmod
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 goblin	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 goblin	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 goblin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goblin	det
9	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	we					for the goblin	tree rules

Option 4

Oh, how pleased all the lizards were with the old goblin, the water-god, and the sea folk

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 pleased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goblin	amod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lizards	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lizards	det
7	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 goblin	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 goblin	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 goblin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goblin	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goblin	amod
12	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 god	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 god	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 god	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
17	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goblin	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 folk	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 folk	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 folk	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 folk	compound
22	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goblin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all lizards					with the pleased old goblin and the water god and the sea folk	tree rules

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