Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

The goblin lived with the huckster for jam, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goblin · What happens: live

This is test 9 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goblin	det
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 huckster	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 huckster	det
6	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 jam	case
8	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 huckster	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 lived	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the goblin					with the huckster for jam	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with huckster=Location

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

Nope, he had a fat slice of pie, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slice	det
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slice	amod
7	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 pie	case
9	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slice	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a fat slice of pie and bro					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Patient
2	slice			pie					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Yep, a big dish of jam at Christmas, sweet deal, and he also stole a spoon from the kitchen

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 dish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dish	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dish	amod
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 jam	case
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dish	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Christmas	case
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dish	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deal	punct
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deal	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Christmas	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stole	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stole	nsubj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 stole	advmod
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dish	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spoon	det
19	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Christmas	a spoon		the kitchen			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme from kitchen=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he lived on cheese and cold bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 cheese	case
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bread	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bread	amod
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheese	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	he			cheese and cold bread			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cheese=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, a big dish of jam at Christmas, sweet deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 dish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dish	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dish	amod
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 jam	case
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dish	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Christmas	case
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dish	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deal	punct
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deal	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Christmas	appos

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

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