Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

Did the goblin really take the wife's tongue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take · To what, where: tongue

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 833 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tongue	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wife	case
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support		the wife's tongue					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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

Nah, he just swapped her tongue, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swapped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swapped	advmod
5	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swapped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swapped	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 swapped	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	he	her tongue					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sneaky	punct
10	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sleep	past	she						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky, and the huckster never found out about it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sneaky	punct
10	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slept	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 huckster	det
14	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 found	advmod
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 found	compound:prt
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sleep	past	she			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not find out	past	the huckster		about it	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky, then he hid in the cask and laughed all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sneaky	punct
10	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slept	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hid	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hid	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hid	nsubj
14	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cask	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cask	det
17	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hid	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sleep	past	she				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	past	he		the cask	then	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cask=Location
4	laugh	past	he not said here			night	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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