Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

Yo, why'd they chuck the paper on the fire, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: chuck, innit · To what, where: paper, fire

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 chuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chuck	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	nsubj
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chuck	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	present	they	the paper		the fire			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent paper=Theme on fire=Destination
2	innit	infinitive	they not said here						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

Cos it was so mouldy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 mouldy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mouldy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mouldy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 mouldy	advmod
5	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mouldy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos it had writing on it and nobody wanted to read it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 had	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 writing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 read	mark
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	it			tree rules
2	write	gerund			it	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
3	want	past	nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	it		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos it had writing on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 writing	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 writing	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 writing	aux
4	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 writing	obl

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

Option 4

Cos the schoolmaster said it had writing on it already, innit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 schoolmaster	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schoolmaster	det
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 writing	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 writing	aux
7	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 writing	obl
10	already	already	ADV	_	7 writing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 writing	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			cos the schoolmaster	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	past	schoolmaster	it		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
3	innit	infinitive	schoolmaster not said here			tree rules

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